CANTERBURY TALES @ REPS
REPTEENS directed
by MARK TURNBULL
27th FEB to 2nd MARCH on Reps Main stage
A wacky comedy adaption by MARTIN RILEY,
REPTEENS
opened a new season for 2002 at REPS
Theatre on 27th
February with a wacky, hysterical new comedy version of the classic
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
REPTEENS
is the youth theatre at
REPS it meets on Fridays evenings and
has grown substantially in numbers over the last year. The production has
32 young actors and actresses who are the future of Zimbabwean theatre and
are all excited at showing their skills at entertaining the theatre-going
public in Harare.
Not only are all the performers aged
between 13 and 19 years of age, but all the technical and stage-management
crew are young people of the same ilk. There are also three assistant directors
learning their skills on the
production and helping Mark Turnbull to put the young cast through their
paces.
The play is a new adaption by the English playwright Martin Riley, specially made accessible to a young audience by using ‘commedia dell arte’ and street theatre styles to put across the stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathredal. The plays are bold and brash using audience participation and gives lots of young, talented performers the opportunity to entertain and introduce the audience to a different way of telling a funny and exciting theatrical story.
