Dorchester Drama are renowned for giving their audiences excellent value for money, but they are really upping their game for their next production, Some Canterbury Tales which is coming to Broadmayne Village Hall on April 17 and 18.
The theatre group is staging six of Geoffrey Chaucer’s mediaeval tales with five directors, giving each story its own unique flavour. Chaucer wrote 24 Canterbury Tales, told by different characters as they made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, as was customary at the time.
Colin Elphick, who is coordinating all the plays, explained: “We are really looking forward to bringing our adaptation of Chaucer’s tales to Broadmayne. The stories we have chosen to tell are The Knight’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale, The Franklin’s Tale, The Nun Priest’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale. They explore issues of love, religion and death, still fundamental to this day of our human existence.”
These tales, adapted by Ken Pickering, also never shy away from the lighter side of life, so expect laughter, comedy bed romps, ribaldry, gambling, drinking and a (fake) bare bottom.
Dorchester Drama’s adaptation of Ken Pickering’s Some Canterbury Tales is at Broadmayne village hall on Friday and Saturday, April 17 (7.30pm) and 18 (2pm and 7.30pm).
Tickets costing £10 are available now from https://wegottickets.com/DorchesterDrama/
