Behind the Scenes: Medieval Times

Anonymous said, "She who waits for her knight must remember, she will have to clean up after his horse."

And now for something a bit different...in the 90s a family from Spain brought something over to the U.S. called Medieval Times -- basically a dinner and show venue with high quality performance values. Medieval Times has spread to many North American cities, and in the past 15 years its only gotten better.

I found a few behind the scenes videos and discovered they start their knights as squires tending horses -- no one is hired on as a knight to begin with. They also try to stay as true to period as is possible in this modern age. Don't be fooled by the American accents: the same Spanish family still owns the company, and the expectations and performances are high quality.

I'm listing three videos: the first two set the stage for the last, which has some great visuals and locations. Since I've been frustrated getting some good images of knights (beyond the director's cut of "Kingdom of Heaven" and "A Knight's Tale), I was happy to find this.

Additional videos are on YouTube if you search under "Medieval Times Behind the Scenes." Oh, and there are Andalusian horses and some fine-looking knights here. For anyone wanting moving inspiration for Dickon's time...perhaps these will help.

http://youtu.be/40XArZPrzE8
http://youtu.be/cyVJfVVQg9g
http://youtu.be/kEITxctmptk

~Weds

I never thought I'd be interested in these performances but I'm definitly going to try one out. Maire.

--- In , "wednesday_mc" wrote:
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> Anonymous said, "She who waits for her knight must remember, she will have to clean up after his horse."
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> And now for something a bit different...in the 90s a family from Spain brought something over to the U.S. called Medieval Times -- basically a dinner and show venue with high quality performance values. Medieval Times has spread to many North American cities, and in the past 15 years its only gotten better.
>
> I found a few behind the scenes videos and discovered they start their knights as squires tending horses -- no one is hired on as a knight to begin with. They also try to stay as true to period as is possible in this modern age. Don't be fooled by the American accents: the same Spanish family still owns the company, and the expectations and performances are high quality.
>
> I'm listing three videos: the first two set the stage for the last, which has some great visuals and locations. Since I've been frustrated getting some good images of knights (beyond the director's cut of "Kingdom of Heaven" and "A Knight's Tale), I was happy to find this.
>
> Additional videos are on YouTube if you search under "Medieval Times Behind the Scenes." Oh, and there are Andalusian horses and some fine-looking knights here. For anyone wanting moving inspiration for Dickon's time...perhaps these will help.
>
> http://youtu.be/40XArZPrzE8
> http://youtu.be/cyVJfVVQg9g
> http://youtu.be/kEITxctmptk
>
> ~Weds
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