The Maryland Castle performs over 400 shows per year, and employs a total of 180 people, including cast members, riders, production people, marketing, hospitality, maintenance and management. A corporate head knight visits each castle and ranch every six months. Each show location has a “head knight,” who oversees the care of the horses. Training and dress rehearsals for a new show takes around one week, and during that week, knights practice the new show in the mornings and perform the old show in the afternoon and evenings.

The script and choreography are changed every six to seven years, and the Maryland knights are expecting to receive a new script soon, with training videos and music. The riders (a.k.a knights), however, get to swap out who gets to play the “champion” from show to show. Medieval Times executes the exact same show and script every performance in every location across the country. Below, Avery shares with our readers what we learned this summer. Later this summer, several Equiery staffers and summer intern Avery Smith visited the corporation’s Maryland “ranch” to speak with Georgiy Gibizov and the show’s general manager Nate Thompson. The company now has nine locations, or “castles” throughout the United States. The theater itself is known in official Medieval Times company lingo as the “castle.” After the show, the Equiery staff was treated to an exclusive backstage tour of the castle stables and interview with the head trainer Georgiy Gibizov.įounded in Spain in the 1970s, Jose Montener brought his medieval re-enactment dinner theater to the United States in 1983. This summer, The Equiery staff took a field trip to experience Maryland’s only professional equi-tainment dinner theater, the Medieval Times at Arundel Mills Mall. She has been an active rider for over ten years, participating primarily in fox chasing. This past summer, she interned at The Equiery, at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and for the Maryland Steeplechase Association. Avery Smith is a second-year undergraduate student at Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland, studying ancient history, archaeology and the history of art and architecture.

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