The Faerie Queen

Katie worked as a performer and choreographer for Cilgwyn Theatre Company’s The Faerie Queen (performances 11th-29th December 2007).

The Story

A girl looks into an enchanted mirror and sees the face she will seek for many years. A knight kneels, crying, outside a castle that he cannot enter. A wizard places a beating heart in his frying pan: it sizzles and he smiles.

Britomart, the female knight, takes on a quest of such magnitude that she must risk complete isolation to find the man whose face she saw and secure the future of England. The beautiful Florimell must escape a swarm of suitors to find her true lover. Ate, the goddess of discord, wreaks havoc on the world, who can save it?

The Faerie Queen is as bold, experimental, eloquent and exciting now as it was in 1590. Following many journeys across a landscape both ancient and contemporary, Cilgwyn Theatre Company recreate Sir Edmund Spenser's poem, exploring desire, conflict and the beauties and dangers of a world which is constantly transforming.

The Faerie Queen ran from the 11th December 2007 to 29th December 2007 at the Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadlers Wells.