Chauntecleer & Pertelotte: A Beasty Babel Fable

Very loosely based on Chaucers Nuns Priests Tale - an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens - Dougie Blaxlands Chauntecleer & Pertelotte - 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.Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival,Chauntecleer & Pertelottehas also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the Edinburgh Festival.A key and distinctive feature of the play is the language that combines elements of Chaucer with the nonsensical gobbledy-gook pioneered by comedians Stanley Unwin and the great Kenneth Williams.With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxlands outlandish farmy-warmy world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play delivered at breakneck speed.Wordcraft does not come much better than this; this is comedic and literary gold.
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