The Canterbury Tales
The Story is the Journey...
Southend Echo
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The Canterbury Tales was a new version of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece, devised and presented by Brute Farce, it toured the UK in the Autumn of 2001.
The script was written by Rob Crouch and Phil Graham, based on a series of workshops with various members of the extended Brute Farce ensemble and then devised by the final cast.
Five Pilgrims (played by Alan Sharpington, Sarah Goddard, Victoria Lepper, Peter Warwick and Greta Lang) played a variety of Chaucer's characters. The tales that were finally included in the adaptation were: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Prioress' Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Wife of Bath's prologue and Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale.
A variety of other characters also popped up, strung together by The Geoffrey Chaucer Show a Jerry Springer-esque confessional TV show where assorted oddballs turn up to tell a variety of stories in their own, radically differing styles which slew from a Spaghetti Western to bawdy sex-comedy via grande guignol pastiche, a fondant fancy pupet show and a WWF inspired battle scene.
