Canterbury Tales Gallery
CANTERBURY TALES
Based on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales was devised, written and rehearsed in early 2020, and was set to open on April 3. Unfortunately Covid got in the way and, 11 days before, the UK went into lockdown. The show finally went on tour in May 2021.Here's ‘The Canterbury Arms’, an olde English Inn,
Infamous around these parts for villainy and sin.
The floor is caked in sawdust, for soaking up the spit,
And the air is thick with stories told with wisdom, guile and wit.
Some stories are romantic, some are bawdy, others scary
And there are tales about the devil that should make you oh so wary,
Some are beautifully poetic and some a little coarser;
A medieval mash-up from the pen of Geoffrey Chaucer!
Revered as one of the most important works in English literature, Canterbury Tales paints an ironic and critical portrait of English society in the middle-ages.
All of life is here in these few bawdy, funny and sometimes shocking short stories. Experience a journey down the foul and fetid footpaths of fourteenth-century England, told with the usual irreverence, wit and silliness!
Expect naughtiness, nonsense and medieval swearing!
It's rude! It's ribald! It's ridiculous! Let's party like it's 1387!
This is Chaucer... but not as you think you know it!
Suitable for adults and older children (12+) Unsuitable for serious scholars of middle-English literature. Contains mild swearing and comic sexual reference.
Script: Simon Harvey, David Mynne, Anna Maria Murphy
Director: Simon Harvey
Performer: David Mynne
Associate Director: David Twomlow
WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAID:
“I just wanted to say how much we enjoyed the Canterbury Tales in West Haddon last week. It’s really quite amazing to think that we were being entertained by stories which have been told for over seven hundred years! You made them so accessible and really brought out both the humour and the humanity of the tales. Thank you."
"Loved it - so different. What a talented man to devise it - and act it out - and just be the great character he so clearly is!”
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