![]() ![]() Lerner is allowed to eat while perched on her throne during the show, since the story line is built around a banquet. He started rewriting it a year and half before the sexual harassment accusations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein, the chef Mario Batali and a host of other men started a national conversation. Leigh Cordner, a former Marine who left his job as an FM disc jockey 30 years ago to join Medieval Times, directs the show. She presides over a tournament to find the best knight in the land drama ensues when a knight who has been acting dishonorably challenges her authority. ![]() In the new script, the queen has taken over for her late father (presumably the king from the previous show). In the show’s old plot, the king had to fight off a challenger from another realm using a knight who bested five others in a tournament. By year’s end, a queen will reign in all nine of the castles in North America. It was rolled out in Lyndhurst, N.J., on Jan. The new production, with a woman wearing the crown, had its debut here last fall, then opened at the castle in suburban Chicago. And its peculiar brand of dinner theater - a sort of G-rated “Game of Thrones” - is taking on an unlikely resonance amid the national jousting over gender equality provoked by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. But the show, which draws an estimated 2.5 million customers each year, is replacing all of its kings with queens. For the 34 years Medieval Times has been in business, that monarch has been a man. ![]()
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