In situ’s 2015 production of The Canterbury Tales

In situ‘s The Canterbury Tales: A Promenade Performance (2015)

by Candace Barrington

Many of our posts alert readers to the latest information about the ongoing global reception of Chaucer’s work. Sometimes, though, we use these posts to record information that we don’t have time to follow up on but don’t want to fall through the cracks. This is one of them.

In situ, a theatrical company based in Cambridge UK, produces and performs site-specific works in non-theatrical spaces. (I confess to being an avid fan of such productions, although I’ve never seen an In situ production.)

In 2015, they developed The Canterbury Tales: A Promenade Performance. Bits of the performance can be viewed on this video from the Brighton Fringe Festival.

The Wife of Bath Spurs Her Way onto the Brazilian Stage!

A Mulher de Bath.102417This week features the premiere of A Mulher de Bath, a stage production based on José Francisco Botelho’s 2013 translation of The Canterbury Tales and starring Maitê Proença.  This Brazilian actor, known for her extensive filmography and her outspokenness, commissioned the play and seems the perfect embodiment for Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, a woman the promotional material identifies as “uma mulher de vasta experiência e de ardorosa oratória” (a woman of vast experience and ardent oratory).

O que quer esta muhler?

The opening performances are this weekend, 28 and 29 October 2017, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, north of Rio de Janiero.