Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTERBURY TALES. There is something innocent, sweet and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from this British musical. The chorus boys' codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry.
Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from a British musical called Canterbury Tales, which has not thrived on a sea change from London. Surprisingly commercial, it treats sex as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. DeMille devotional epic. Nothing is mod...
Four of Chaucer's tales are told: the Miller's, the Steward's, the Merchant's and the Wife of Bath's. The dialogue is all in rhyming couplets, which is rather like spending the evening on a date with a metronome. The stories mainly...
All the boy knew of Esalen were fragments of remembered conversations, rumors, stories, tall tales. There would be a lot of nudity, a lot of touching, a lot of sex. He did not know what else, but the adventure of the drive along Route One set the energy flowing in...
All plays and musicals are rather like bedtime stories for grownups. But they rarely resemble the fables, fairy tales and romances that one remembers as a special delight of being very, very young. A new musical called Celebration dwells in just that land of enchantment. It is a charmer for...