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Geoffrey Chaucer & Company Presents
The Miller’s Tale Musical
(Miller’s & Reeve’s Tales)
A fun and bawdy bedroom farce
5 actors – approx. 2 hours
In one of Chaucer’s most
famous tales, a clever clerk tricks an old carpenter into
believing Noah’s flood is returning
so that the clerk can rendezvous with the carpenter’s
young wife. Meanwhile, the parish clerk, also hoping to win
the wife’s
attentions, finds himself literally kissing her behind. Breaking
wind and a hot brand brings this to a hilarious, ‘tail-spinning’ conclusion.
In retaliation for the insult of this tale, Oswald the Reeve
parries with his own tale of deception and sexual retaliation,
thrusting home with a double victory of a cheating miller’s
wife and daughter. Sex is in the air, boisterous, happy and
sometimes completely unexpected!
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