Hamalot

Full-Lengths

By: Nicholas Conti
Cast: 7 M, 8 F, extras
Performance Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, depending upon length of royal festival, 62 pgs.

FARCE. After Princess Opheliac encounters the ghost of Sir Gawain, she learns that he is doomed to walk the grounds of Elsenomore Castle in Hamalot, Denmark forever until he brings the Holy Grail back to England. To help Sir Gawain move on to his celestial home to be reunited with his wife and his one true love—his stallion, Mercury!—Opheliac concocts a plan to loan the Grail to a museum in Camelotte, England. Eager to display the Grail at the Camelotte Castle Museum, museum personnel and two security guards head to Hamalot to transport the Grail back to England. In Hamalot, the visitors meet Prince Hamelette and members of his royal court, but it isn’t long after they arrive that the Holy Grail mysteriously disappears! This play includes a delightful royal festival scene, which provides directors with a unique opportunity to include magicians, acrobats, tumblers, jugglers, singers, dancers, clowns and/or sporting events like karate, boxing, or wrestling.

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Nicholas Conti is an award-winning playwright who has published more than a dozen plays, which have been produced in the US and in the United Kingdom. Mr. Conti has worked as an actor, singer, and radio announcer.