Geoffrey Chaucer & Company Presents
Chanticleer & the Fox
(Monk’s & Nun’s Priest’s Tales)
A family-oriented barnyard musical with Fortune and Flattery
5 actors – approx. 1.5 hours
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.
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