Booking dates available: May 2003
The Knight's Tale
A tale of chivalry, love & honor
2 actors - 45 minutes
Two young knights, royal cousins held captive by Duke Theseus, both fall in love with their captor's sister-in-law. When one knight is set free but banished, and the other breaks from prison, the battle that ensues over the woman they both love draws the attention and deep interest of all Athens, including Theseus. History, literature, mythology, theatre, music and sociology are all relevant topics to a performance of this tale.
Friar’s Tale
Devilish Dealings
5 actors - 35 minutes
The Friar, playing the Devil disguised as a bailiff, tricks the corrupt Summoner into making a deal he will soon regret. While showing off his talent for blackmail and vice, he tries to rip off an old, sick widow, but finds himself the victim of his own evil.
Booking dates available: June 2003
The Knight's Tale
A tale of chivalry, love & honor
2 actors - 45 minutes
Two young knights, royal cousins held captive by Duke Theseus, both fall in love with their captor's sister-in-law. When one knight is set free but banished, and the other breaks from prison, the battle that ensues over the woman they both love draws the attention and deep interest of all Athens, including
Theseus. History, literature, mythology, theatre, music and sociology are all relevant topics to a performance of this tale.
Booking dates available: Sept. - Nov. 2003
Clerk’s Tale
A musical tale of a tested love
7 actors (including 1 child) - 1 hour
In a poignant and heart-rending drama, the Clerk’s patient and faithful Griselda is unexpectedly swept from poverty into a marriage with the Duke. Unable to believe how good and true she seems to be, he finds himself driven to test her love and constancy. True to her word, Griselda is patient and faithful throughout his tests of commitment to him. The love that they share, in spite of the anguish they suffer, carries us beyond the expected marital norms into the calm place within the eye of the storm where love conquers and prevails. It is her transforming grace that finally brings an end to his tests and a reunion with their family.
Booking dates: January - February 2004
Chanticleer & the Fox
(Monk’s & Nun’s Priest’s Tales)
A family-oriented barnyard musical with Fortune and Flattery
5 actors – approx. 45 minutes
This fun-filled show is done with a panto style, bringing the audience into the action with their shouts of helpful support. We start with a host of heroic men and women such as Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar and Zenobia who face
the most momentous consequences when they gamble with Dame Fortune. Ranging from the comic to the tender, the Monk brings us a pageant of the prideful. The Nun’s Priest then brings us a delightful barnyard romp in which he
becomes the cock, Chanticleer, in a tale where chicken coops are filled with dreams and foxes filled with fowl desire. Chanticleer wakes from a nightmare and describes a fearful fox from that
dream to his favorite chicken-wife Pertelote. Dame Pertelote is scandalized to think her husband rooster is a coward (or a chicken, if you will). So begins a domestic debate that takes our barnyard animals into a surreal
world of famous scary dreams from history that came true. After winning the argument, Chanticleer regains his courage but forgets his dream. And then, Russell the Fox, a flattering trickster makes his fated
appearance!
But just when all seems lost, who is the trickiest? The audience knows and will come to the rescue.
Monk's Tale
A pageant of pride
4 actors - approx. 35 minutes
A host of heroic men and women such as Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar and Zenobia face the most momentous consequences when they gamble with Dame Fortune. Ranging from the comic to the tender, the Monk brings us a pageant of the prideful.
Particularly relevant topics include history, literature, mythology, theatre, and music.
Booking dates available: April - May 2004
Franklin's Tale
Love and scorn
4 actors- approx. 1 hour
Chaucer explores relationships between women and men, as well as acts of grace and forgiveness, honor and integrity in this romance. The Franklin tells of a young man obsessed with another man's wife who calls upon dark magic to trick her into a promise that will violate her marriage. This tale offers the most modern image of the ideal marriage, far from the extremes conjured up by the Clerk, Merchant or Miller.
Booking dates available: June 2004
Pardoner’s Tale
A dark musical of greed and its cost
5 actors – 45 minutes
A dark and surreal parable in which three drunken rogues seek out Death to destroy it. It is their own greed that leads them to death in the end – death at each other’s hands.
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