![]() There is clever mimicry in the way Smith echoes Chaucer’s work, adapting his tale from Arthurian England to 18th-century Jamaica, but there are moments where the play gets lost in its own tangents. ![]() You don’t need to have studied the 14th-century poem to enjoy the mix of characters in either, although Smith’s script is more impressive the closer you’ve read the original text. ![]() The show is divided, as was Chaucer’s writing, into prologue and tale. Even Jesus makes an appearance, a bar tray creatively forming his halo. Speaking in verse, the cast of 10 leap into different characters as Alvita’s stories move from one husband to the next. ![]() Photograph: Marc BrennerĪround our protagonist, the author of NW and Swing Time gives us bickering pilgrims in the form of a band of strangers you might bump into on Kilburn High Road. Big night out … (From left) Marcus Adolphy, George Eggay, Andrew Frame and Clare Perkins. ![]()
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