‘The Canterbury Tales: Part One’ & ‘The Canterbury Tales: Part Two’, Perth Fringe Festival 2013
Canterbury Cathedral, carpenter, comedy, court, death, drama, flood, flour miller, Fringe Festival, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400), King Arthur, knight, KNUTS, maiden, medieval literature, medieval poetry, Medieval Romance, modern adaptation, old hag, performance, Perth, pilgrim, pilgrimage, Science Fiction, shrine, space, Stephen Lee, Stephen Quinn, <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, ‘The Merchant’s Tale’, ‘The Miller’s Tale’, ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’, ‘The Reeve’s Tale’, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’, Thomas Becket, Victorian Melodrama, villain, vulcan, WA, Western, Western Australia.
<p>This production by theatre company KNUTS is a modern adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> in two parts. Adapted by Stephen Quinn and directed by Stephen Lee, it transposes stories from Chaucer’s original text into a variety of different genres, ranging from Western to silent film, Victorian melodrama and a Shakespearean version of a Medieval Romance. Part One includes renditions of ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’, ‘The Miller’s Tale’ and ‘The Reeve’s Tale’, and Part Two ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ and ‘The Merchant’s Tale’. This production featured as part of the Perth Fringe Festival in 2013, where ‘The Canterbury Tales: Part One’ was performed from 7 February to 13 February and ‘The Canterbury Tales: Part Two’ was performed the following week from 14 February to 19 February 2013. A positive review of ‘The Canterbury Tales: Part Two’ from <em>The West Australian</em> can be read at: <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/16159623/review-the-canterbury-tales-part-two/" target="_blank">http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/16159623/review-the-canterbury-tales-part-two/</a>.</p>
<p>In Chaucer’s original <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>, written in the late fourteenth century, the narrator joins a group of 29 pilgrims who are about to set out on a journey from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. He proposes that each member of the group tell two stories to entertain them on their journey, and proceeds to record each of these ‘tales’. The teller of the best story was to be rewarded with a free meal at the expense of the rest of the group.</p>
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Adapted by Stephen Quinn
Directed by Stephen Lee
FringeWorld Festival Website (<a href="https://www.fringeworld.com.au/home/" target="_blank">https://www.fringeworld.com.au/home/</a>)
Part One: 7 February 2013 - 13 February 2013
Part Two: 14 February 2013 – 19 February 2013
Fringe Festival & KNUTS Theatre Company
Performance in different genres, including Western, carry on film, silent movie, science fiction, ‘mock Shakespeare’, Victorian melodrama.
Tom Room Building, Launceston Church Grammar School, Tasmania
Buttress, castle, coat of arms, crenellation, crest, drama, education, Gothic, Launceston, Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray, parapet, pointed arch, Tom Room, school, shield, Tas, Tasmania, tower.
<p>Launceston Church Grammar School has two campuses in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The relatively recent brick Tom Room Building continues the medieval theme found elsewhere on the campus by the use buttresses that end as crenellation. The building also features the school coat of arms/crest of a castle with towers and crenelated parapets on a shield, as well as a drawing of a Gothic pointed arch doorway. The building has drama and multi-purpose classrooms. This photograph was taken on the Mowbray campus.</p>
<p>For the crest see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p>For other buildings with medieval features see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
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McLeod, Shane
November 17, 2012
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<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1234</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1240</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1256</a></p>
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Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble
Helen Dell, Drama, France, Iberia, Melbourne, music, performance, poetry, song, Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble, Vic, Victoria
Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble was founded by mezzo soprano Helen Dell in Melbourne, Victoria, in 2007. Their concert program includes Love’s Paradise – love stories and songs from twelfth and thirteenth-century France; Songs from the Heart – songs by and for women from medieval France; All You Who Love – medieval and early renaissance music from the Iberian Peninsula. As well as music their performances include stories, poetry, and drama.
Allegro Music
13 April 2012
Allegro Music, Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble
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English
Vacuum Entertainment: Enjoyable Evening at the Y.A.L.
alchemy, alchemist, drama, entertainment, function, G. W. Craggs, L. B. McCay, laboratory, Major Norman Brearley, medieval setting, play, stage performance, Vacuum Oil Company, WA, Western Australia Y.A.L. Hall
This newspaper article from the Sunday Times reports on a function hosted by the Vacuum Oil Company at the Y.A.L. Hall on 1 June 1932. In addition to an address Major Norman Brearley, the managing director of W.A. Airways, the programme for the evening featured a well-received one-act play written by Mr L. B. McCay and produced by one of the Company’s automotive staff, Mr G. W. Craggs. Although no further details about the play are provided, the setting is described as ‘the subterranean laboratory of medieval alchemists’.
Anon.
The National Library of Australia
The Sunday Times
5 June 1932, p. 4.
The Sunday Times
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Grand Theatre: ’Under the Red Robeâ€
Alma Rubens (1897-1931), Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), Day of the Dupes (1630), drama, duel, fiction, film, Gil de Berault, Grand Theatre, Henri de Cocheforet, historical fiction, honour, Huguenot, John Charles Thomas (1889-1960), literature, Louis XIII, Mademoiselle de Cocheforet, “Medieval romanceâ€, movie, novel, Robert B. Mantell, screen Stanley J. Weyman (1855-1928), “Under the Red Robeâ€, WA, Western Australia
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In this notice about the upcoming programme for the Grand Theatre, a screening of the 1923 silent film “Under the Red Robe” is announced. The film is based on Stanley J. Weyman’s historical novel of the same name. The novel is described in the article as a medieval romance, although it is set in seventeenth-century France. The story opens in 1630, when Gil de Berault sets out on a search for fugitive Huguenot Henri de Cocheforet, on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. He has offered his martial skills to Richelieu in exchange for his life after being arrested for duelling in Paris. Although he does indeed find and arrest M. de Cocheforet, he realises that he has fallen in love with his sister and lets him go free to restore his honour. The story ends on the Day of the Dupes with the marriage of de Berault and de Cocheforet. </span></p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">For a copy of “Under the Red Robe” by Stanley J. Weyman, see </span><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1896" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1896</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. </span>
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The West Australian
16 December 1925, p. 12.
The West Australian
Digitised Newspaper Article; PDF
English
Shakespeare Unit
adaption, drama, dramatic, films, film, Hamlet, Macbeth, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, university, universities, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Level 2 undergraduate unit ‘Shakespeare’ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period are on the reading list, Macbeth (an eleventh-century king of Scotland) and Hamlet (the legendary Viking-Age Amleth, recorded by the Dane Saxo Grammaticus in the early thirteenth century).
Eckersall, Peter
<span><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/THTR20021" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/THTR20021</span></a></span></span>
University of Melbourne
17 June 2011
Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne
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Shakespeare in Adaptation unit
Bundoora, Chris Palmer, drama, film, La Trobe University, Macbeth, Melbourne, Shakespeare, university, Victoria, William Shakespeare, adaptation
Second and third year undergraduate unit at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus, in Melbourne)coordinated by Chris Palmer. The unit examines four of Shakespeare’s plays, including two film versions of each play. One of the plays set during the medieval period, Macbeth (an eleventh-century king of Scotland), is included.
Palmer, Chris
La Trobe University
La Trobe University
June 18 2011
Chris Palmer, La Trobe University
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“The Winter’s Tale†for Perth Stage
Antigonus, Apollo’s Temple, Bohemia, Camillo, costume, drama, Emilia, Florizel, head dress, head-dress, headdress, Hermione, jealousy, John Alden (1908-1962), John Alden Shakespearean Company, Leontes, Mamillius, medieval costume, medieval dress, oracle, Pauline, Perdita, performance, Perth, Polixenes, Shakespeare, shepherd, shepherdess, shoes, Sicilia, sleeves, stage, theatre, The Winter’s Tale, WA, Western Australia, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In this article from The West Australian in 1952, notice of the upcoming stage production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” by the John Alden Shakespearean Company is given. The medieval costumes - including elaborate head-dresses, pointed shoes and draped sleeves - would be particularly appealing to Perth audiences, the article suggests, because they were such a marked change from the plays usually performed on the Perth stage. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About The Winter’s Tale:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In “The Winter’s Tale”, Leontes, the King of Sicilia, becomes consumed with jealousy that Hermione, his wife, is having an affair with the King of Bohemia (Polixenes). He instructs his councillor Camillo to poison Polixenes, but instead Camillo reveals Leontes’ plans and both he and Polixenes secretly leave for Bohemia. The pregnant Hermione is banished to prison, where she gives birth to a daughter. Refusing to believe the legitimacy of the child, Leontes demands that the child be burned alive and then, upon the protestations of his chief adviser Antigonus, abandoned off the coast of Bohemia. In the events that unfold over the following Act, Leontes refuses to believe an oracle from Apollo’s Temple exonerating Hermione’s and orders her trial to proceed, his son Mamillius dies, Hermione dies, Leontes realises his mistake and repents, Antigonus is killed by a bear and a shepherd finds the abandoned baby and takes her home. Sixteen years later, in Bohemia, the story recommences with Polixenes expressing concern that his son Florizel has fallen in love with a shepherdess. He attends a sheep-shearing festival in disguise, revealing himself at the last moment to prevent the betrothal of the couple, after which Florizel and the shepherdess are advised by Camillo (now Polixenes’ chief adviser) to flee to Sicilia. When Polixenes also arrives in Sicilia with the shepherd and his son, the shepherdess’ identity as Leontes’ lost child is discovered and her marriage to Florizel condoned, Leontes and Polixenes are friends once more, and a statue of Hermione comes to life, revealing that she is alive and has been waiting to be reunited with her daughter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For a copy of the text, see: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2248" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2248</span></a>. </span></p>
Anon.
<span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;">National Library of Australia,</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49052507" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49052507</span></a></span></span></span><br /><a href="../../items/show/402"></a>
The West Australian
13 September 1952, p. 5.
The West Australian
“This is What Women Wore in Bygone Times”, The West Australian, 18 September 1952, p. 7, <a href="../../items/show/402">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/402</a>
Digital Newspaper Article
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