The Green Knight (BUT IT’S GAY)

A fantastically funny retelling of the medieval classic The Green Knight with the sub-text made text! (Spoiler art: it’s gay.)

Sir Gawain’s been peer-pressured into chopping off the Green Knight’s head. And now he has to let the miraculously still-alive Green Knight return the favour. Disaster! King Arthur reckons this is grand as Gawain needs to be more masculine anyway and everybody knows there’s nothing manlier than a good head chopping off… so there’s really no way out.

Created and performed by award-winning (Charlie Harthill Award, Pleasance Theatre 2025) and critically-acclaimed “storytelling genius” (The Scotsman) Niall Moorjani, associate directed by Cecily Nash, and produced in association with Scotland’s award-winning, touring literary theatre company Some Kind of Theatre, this new adaptation fabulously queers an Arthurian classic for the modern world.

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★★★★★ “storytelling genius”
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★★★★★ “spellbinding”
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