Chauntecleer & Pertelotte: A Beasty Babel Fable

Very loosely based on Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale - an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens - Dougie Blaxland’s Chauntecleer & Pertelotte - subtitled “A Beasty Babel Fable” tells the quaint but utterly absurd story of how a jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel.
 
Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival, Chauntecleer & Pertelotte has also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
 
A key and distinctive feature of the play is the language that combines elements of Chaucer with the “nonsensical gobbledy-gook” pioneered by comedians Stanley Unwin and the great Kenneth  Williams. 
 
With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxland’s outlandish “farmy-warmy” world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play delivered at “breakneck speed”.

“Wordcraft does not come much better than this; this is comedic and literary gold.” 
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