This year our PEACH Drama Club has selected the Canterbury Tales for our Spring performance. It is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War.
Caleb will be portraying the host, "Harry Bailly": The proprietor of the Tabard Inn where the pilgrims to Canterbury stay before beginning their journey. He accompanies the pilgrims on their journey. Harry Bailly devised the scheme of the tales, proposing that each tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and he frequently mediates arguments between pilgrims and suggests who shall tell the next story. He has a bit of a class complex, and can be seen regularly toadying up to the upper-class and higher-status characters.
One of the characters Harry Bailly encounters is Chaunticleer, the rooster. He is peerless in his crowing, has seven companions, the most honored of which is his wife Pertelote. Abigail will be portraying Pertelote, the hen. In this modern telling she is described as a Jersey girl with a bit of an attitude! hmmmm, I can't imagine why she was drawn to that role!
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world."
1 John 2:15-16
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