I enjoyed watching the Kneehigh production at the Bristol Old Vic last year, it was powerful stuff. http://www.kneehigh.co.uk/html/tristan_director.html gives a description of the way they approached it. I suspect it's a different production to what's being discussed, but it's the same myth-base.
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SnoozeControl;469804 wrote: Kinda sorta like the Arthurian legend with a three way going on, but this predates those stories.Predates in what sense? The Tristan and Iseult story setting is coeval with Arthurian legend. Tristan and Iseult first appears in the twelfth century. Arthur, unless you regard the Welsh cycle references as interpolation, crops up in sixth century literature, failing which Nennius in the ninth century is a fairly solid starting point to date from.
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