Geoffrey Chaucer & Company Presents
The
Wife of Bath Musical
(Wife’s, Friar’s & Summoner’s Tales)
A fun-filled musical, and sometimes devilish, frolic that
takes a look at who’s in charge
10 actors, 5-piece orchestra – approx. 2 hours
Perhaps the most famous Pilgrim in the Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath is sometimes outrageously outspoken in her commentary on
her marital adventures with the five husbands she has survived. Secretly she lives with the terrible fear that her own aging will kill her attractiveness to men,
an unbearable possibility. Her Arthurian tale of rape and a knight’s redemption through the grace of a woman’s spirit frames this fear and attempts to resolve
it for both women and men. After forcing himself on a young maiden, a churlish knight finds his fate placed in the hands of King Arthur’s queen who sends him on
a desperate quest to discover what it is that all women most desire. The Friar next tricks the Summoner into making a deal with the Devil and loses all when he
tries to blackmail an old widow. Taking his storytelling revenge on the Friar, the Summoner then traps the Friar into a droll dilemma: he must equally divide the
gift of an odoriferous fart with his fellow friars.
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