chaucer's cock tale
Directly translated from Chaucer’s original text, this 50’s take on middle England is directed by well known playwright and literary theorist Bernie Byrnes (RSC, Northern Stage). The words heard on stage remain true to Chaucer’s original dialogue. Visually spectacular, Chaucer’s COCK TALE blends outrageous scenography with an all new score by “original and refreshing” (The Stage) film composer Jim Fowler.
The striking performance style of Another Midas and its on ongoing penchant for the extreme allow Chaucer’s COCK TALE to transcend language and communicate the author’s original truisms of pride, vanity and wit. This funny, nasty, camp, tragic story is told with lust, lies and lipstick.
synposis
Chanticleer is gifted with good looks and the most beautiful voice in the world. He and his ‘perfect’ wife Pertelot are the darlings of the lifestyle glossy, with their never faltering veneer of marital bliss. Dawn Russel is a vixen with other ideas! Pursuing Chanticleer to her own ends, she begins a hunting game that will cause feathers to fly.