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Canterbury Tales

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 7m

Geoffrey Chaucer, Phil Woods, Michael Bogdanov

Canterbury Tales (script)
by Chaucer made modern by Phil Woods with Michael Bogdanov
Music by Chris Barnes

"Colourful, boozy, good-spirited, compelling entertainment." - Stage and Television Today

Phil Woods has updated Chaucer to recreate for a modern audience the spectacle, humour and bawdiness of the fourteenth-century original. Set…

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Canterbury Tales

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 7m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature)

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Summary

Phil Woods has updated Chaucer to recreate for a modern audience the spectacle, humour and bawdiness of the fourteenth-century original. Set in the present the tales are told in the form of an annual "Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales-telling Competition", with the audience invited on stage between tales.

Cast Attributes

Large cast may be played by M7 F5

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    An open space

  • Additional Features Play with Music

Media

"Like all the best borrowings, Phil Woods' script captures in its own satiric style the comic essence of Chaucer's glee at human credulity and conformity." - The Guardian

"Anyone labouring under the misapprehension that medieval English literature is dry and academic should catch up with this splendid dramatised version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." - Western Mail

"Colourful, boozy, good-spirited, compelling entertainment." - Stage & Television Today

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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