Castle on Charles' Medieval Dinner Theater a raucous and rollicking good time

Lady Duncan, played bu Denise McDonough, second from left, and the Queen, played by Sarah Shanahan, have some sport getting three guys from the audience to don wigs as part of a skit. (Lebanon Voice photo)

Methinks the Medieval Wedding dinner show at Rochester's Castle on Charles is truly a feast for the senses, and you should get there anon.

With buxom lasses serving food and drink, delicious baked chicken, spiced carrots and fingerling potatoes to feast on sans utensils and talented singers and actors performing a right raucous, bawdy tale, one word alone describes it. Huzzah!

The dinner show, itself, is the star of the evening, of course, with plenty of off-color, frolicsome humor laced about a loosely woven plot of intrigue on the queen's wedding day.

Suffice it to say, this 17^th-century royal wedding pits the queen and her gypsy lover/soon-to-be-husband against the skullduggery of the sometimes fiendish, sometimes lovable/vulnerable Lord Mawbrey and his disillusioned handmaiden Mistress Duncan.

From left, the Queen, played by Sarah Shanahan, Doug Decker as Lord Mawbrey, Mike Morris as Dreg and Lady Duncan, played by Denise McDonough. (Courtesy photo)

But enough about the storyline, for it meanders from strict dialogue and song to interactive audience high-jinks at the wink of a codpiece.

There's tons of fun to be had at the Castle on Charles, a former Episcopal church that resembles a medieval fortress on the moors of England, er, I mean, downtown Rochester.

We give the Medieval Wedding Dinner show five Huzzahs.

Three more shows include tonight, and next Friday and Saturday.

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