Chauntecleer and Pertelotte
Wed 28 & Thu 29 Oct • 7:30pm • Admission £15 • Professional Theatre
Presented by Live Wire Theatre
Loosely based on Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale – an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens – Dougie Blaxland’s Chauntecleer & Pertlotte – subtitled.
‘A Beasty Babel Fable’ tells the quaint but utterly absurd story of how a jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel.
Delivered in language combining elements of Chaucer with the ‘nonsensical gobbledy-gook’ pioneered by comedy greats Stanley Unwin and Kenneth Williams, Chauntecleer & Pertlotte has been described as ‘comedic and literary gold’.
With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxland’s outlandish ‘farmy-warmy’ world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play performed at ‘breakneck speed’.
Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival, Chauntecleer & Pertelotte has also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Running time: 60 mins (approx)
Age recommendation: 16+
Content warnings: adult humour, strong language, sexual references, suggestive and mildly explicit scenes, partial nudity, comic violence and references to medical procedures.
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