Ren Faire

When Texas Renaissance Festival King George suddenly announces his retirement to focus on his love life, a battle erupts amongst the festival's body politic. The festival's general manager and heir apparent must fight for his place in the kingdom against a kettle-corn kingpin and a former elephant trainer, both eager to remake the festival in their own image. Their feud ascends to Shakespearian heights in this three-part genre defying, docu-fantasia from director Lance Oppenheim, Elara Pictures, and HBO. The vast and powerful score mirrors the internal drama going on between the characters in the show and plays a critical role to the series’ unique, creative identity. Composed, written and performed by LA based Ari Balouzian (Gabriels, Appraiser) - "Like Bernard Herrmann scoring a Tex Avery epic," it delivers a wild blend of a full scale orchestral strings, programmed and acoustic Moodog-esque percussion and dark, brooding bass synthesizers. This is the third collaboration between Balouzian and Oppenheim after Some Kind Of Heaven (2020) and Spermworld (2024).