"Cult British sitcom The Office (2001) set the standard for comedy drama about apparently unremarkable people. The show's co-creator, Stephen Merchant, said in an interview that a great story jolts [a person] out of their life and gives them a way of reframing it. There couldn't be a better mission statement for Felix Grainer and Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson's new play, Gawain and the Green Knight, which retells one of Britain's oldest folk stories as a screwball workplace drama."
"This is not a traditional tale of knights, feasts and castles. Where the original myth begins with a meal around King Arthur's Round Table, this version starts at an office Christmas party. Filing cabinets border the stage, tinsel hangs from drawers, and characters emerge from an elevator. It's the last place you'd expect to find a four-foot axe. Our Gawain is a sales rep in a cyber security company."
"Arthur, the fanatical boss played by Cara Steele (The Nag's Head), is leading an Arthurian rebrand. She forces the employees of Camelot Corp. to adopt mythical names (Gawain, formally Gary). The office greeting is now HAZAR!, and the stakes of their operation have been comically heightened: Troy would still be standing if it had better malware protection touts the CEO."
A screwball workplace drama reimagines Gawain and the Green Knight as an office comedy set at Camelot Corp, a cyber security firm. The staging replaces knights and castles with filing cabinets, tinsel, and an office Christmas party, where a four-foot axe appears. Gawain is a sales rep caught in an Arthurian rebrand led by a fanatical boss who forces mythical names and an office greeting of HAZAR!. Gawain, deemed too boring, must fight for his job and prove himself while torn between an office crush and management. A mysterious green knight issues a deadly challenge and the questing Gawain endures trials with eccentric inn owners.
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