By Rosie Hetherington

I can heartily recommend a great time in Knaresborough, with these passionate knights who swear-a-lot. It's a cross between "Reservoir Dogs" and "A Knight's Tale" without the rocking soundtrack. In fact the soundtrack is conspicuous by its absence. According to The Cherwell there should have been a pounding drumbeat. The drummer boy must have cut himself, along with the sound engineer. Director Phil Ormrod needs to be more careful where he leaves those swords. You could have someone's eye out! Glad I wasn't sitting in the front row as they practised their swings.

This premiere student production brings a chill to the blood with the feel of a cold draughty Yorkshire castle. As Thomas Becket's murderers hide out from public outrage and papal animosity, their relationships and loyalties to the King are tested to the limit.

"Ever fall in love with someone you shouldn't fall in love with?" These knights did and their barely suppressed sexual desires and violent mood swings threaten to destroy them all. The troubled yet still handsome Morville (Ted Hodgkinson) struggles with his guilty conscience and the knightly ideals of honour, chastity, and chivalry to which he holds dear.

Like Monty Python and the Medieval Reservoir Dogs this show is full of traditional British toilet humour and tense bloody violence. Their powerful leader Fitz (Phil Ormrod) and the manipulative Traci (Harry Lee) clash over love and loyalty to the crown. Catherine (Vix Ross) provides the damsel in distress or in control. I must disagree with the impetuous Brito (Charlie Morrison) it really is very funny.

With a spiral of unrequited love you might think you'd wandered into a "Dream". The body count reminds you it's just a nightmare.