{"id":3041,"date":"2026-05-17T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=3041"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:56:17","slug":"some-canterbury-tales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=3041","title":{"rendered":"Some Canterbury Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Six of Chaucer’s best known Canterbury Tales – the Knight’s, the Wife of Bath’s, the Pardoner’s, the Franklin’s, the Nun’s Priest’s and the Miller’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adapted by Ken Pickering, the style of the play is that of a spontaneous telling of a story by a group of strolling players, with the Company taking various parts in enacting the different tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had bawdy jokes, talking animals, bare bums, morals and horses (hobby).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This production was performed in Broadmayne village hall on the 17th & 18th April 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Six of Chaucer’s best known Canterbury Tales – the Knight’s, the Wife of Bath’s, the Pardoner’s, the Franklin’s, the Nun’s Priest’s and the Miller’s. Adapted by Ken Pickering, the style of the play is that of a spontaneous telling of a story by a group of strolling players, with the Company taking various parts in … Continue reading Some Canterbury Tales<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3043,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5MaE2-N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3041\/revisions\/3045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}