Very loosely based on Chaucers Nuns Priests Tale - an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens - Dougie Blaxlands 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 & Pertelottehas 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 Blaxlands 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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