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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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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 7m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (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 w/ 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.
  • Mandatory Music/Media Fee: £10 per performance

Authors

Author

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author

Phil Woods

Author

Michael Bogdanov

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