The Targaryens have come to town. The Royal Shakespeare Company's new production, Game of Thrones: The Mad King, is now playing in the UK's Stratford-Upon-Avon, and it's a hugely ambitious, intensely immersive spectacle that every George R.R. Martin fan should experience at least once.
Adapted by Duncan MacMillan and directed by Dominic Cooke, the play is set just before the events of the original novels (and TV show) and chronicles the fateful tourney at Harrenhal. This occasion saw Rhaegar Targaryen crown Lyanna Stark the queen of love and beauty – and kickstart a bloody civil war that ended with Robert Baratheon ascending the Iron Throne and the Targaryen line near-annihilated.
