While waiting for the Netflix series, here is Europe's most famous medieval epic condensed into a low-tech episodic show: Guillaume & Harold, which depicts the Bayeux Tapestry (11thcentury), a long-running tale of invasion that ends well then badly, or badly then well—depending on your point of view (English or French) and the time scale (short or long) you adopt.
In any case, we encounter William, Harold, Edward, Elguyve, Edith, but also horses, a mule, ships, the English Channel, Mont-Saint-Michel, Halley's Comet, a giant barbecue, the Battle of Hastings, and... ABBA.
Guillaume & Harold is a commission for theTout-Terrain Collectioncurated by Alban Richard: a series of short pieces for black boxes and outdoor spaces.
The show premiered in Paris in February.
Theater of the City, Paris
February 17 at 10 a.m. [school group]
February 18 at 10 a.m. [school group] & 3 p.m.
February 19 at 10 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. [school groups]
February 20 at 10 a.m. [school group] & 7 p.m.
February 21 at 3 p.m.
