THE Canterbury Tales will be performed by Half Cut Theatre in St. Margaret’s Church in Corsley on Saturday 23rd March.
Half Cut Theatre take their loving but disarmingly sharp hatchet to one of the seminal works of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s 600-year-old-snapshot-of-mediaeval-society-in-all-its-filth-and-glory, ‘The Canterbury Tales’. Packed full of laughs and loves, music and mayhem, Half Cut bring their trademark joy to this raucous journey which will delight young and old alike.
Organisers say, “It was recently discovered that Geoffrey Chaucer’s fan club in Corsley got going some 450 years ago. Deep in the archives at Longleat lies a bundle of papers relating to the Manor of Corsley, now Manor Farm next to St. Margaret’s Church.
“John Thynne lived at the Manor from 1567 to 1573 whilst rebuilding the Longleat we see today (the first having been destroyed by fire a few months before Sir John was due to move in). When Sir John died in 1580 the inventory of the chattels in his chamber contained sundry pieces of furniture and a copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
“The words so clearly enjoyed by Sir John take form in the church next door in St. Margaret’s when Half Cut perform The Canterbury Tales on Saturday, the 23rd of March! Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are £17 adults and £10 under 13 years. All proceeds to go to Friends of St. Margaret’s.”
For more information and tickets email claire@manorfarmcorsley.com
