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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…
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.
Large cast may be played by M7 F5
An open space
"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