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Canterbury Tales is a bawdy classic written 700 years ago, it centres on a group of pilgrims who entertain one another with stories as they ride to Canterbury Cathedral. But despite the apparently holy purpose of their journey these travellers reveal themselves as sinners rather than saints. The pilgrims contrasting and colourful backgrounds offer many different stories, from the serious and moral to the farcical and bawdy, proving that like Shakespeare after him, Chaucer was 'not for an age but for all time' . Alive and Kicking present The Canterbury Tales as you've never seen them before. Meet and shake hands with Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Pilgrims. The bawdy and humorous Wife of Bath will be there- without her 5 husbands! The double-dealing Pardoner will be selling Holy Relics and offering to forgive all your sins, and the boozy, loud-mouthed, cheating Miller will be telling the story that even Chaucer blushed at.

Creatives/Company

Author: Chaucer
Company: Alive and Kicking