Houët’s Ladies of the Lake: An underwhelming production
There’s water. And there’s waterlogged. The latter describes this show which sets out, in only tangentially interesting fashion, to reveal the origin of the Lady of the Lake of Arthurian legend — you know, the gal who, in some versions of the legend, gave Arthur his sword Excalibur.
In this movement, music and text-based piece, a lady named Vivienne (Kate Smith), on a quest for she knows not what — which makes the searching kind of tricky — falls into a remote lake.
Ambrose, a mysterious seer/healer who lives in a nearby hut and is played by John Doucet, helps restore to Vivienne to good health once she escapes the lake.
From there a bunch of other stuff happens involving birds, dreamscapes, and another woman (Dilys Ayafor) who is trapped in the lake and, it turns out, has an unbreakable connection to Ambrose.
A Skeleton Key Theatre (Ottawa) production
Created by: Kate Smith, Catriona Leger and John Doucet
Directed by: Catriona Leger
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