Take the spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer's best known work, stick it in the heart of Thomas Hardy's Wessex almost five hundred years later, remove the "upper crust" (or aristocracy!) and what have you got?
Written and Performed Show format: Full Length: Act 1= approx. 50 minutes. Act 2= approx. 50 minutes
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Click on the PDF logo below to download a current tourlist for all of Ray's one-man shows Based apon "A Few Crusted Characters" by Thomas Hardy, this new one-man show has all the humour, pathos and humanity of its medieval predecessor.
Discover how Tony Kytes - the "Arch Deceiver" - manages to hide three unsuspecting female admirers in the same cart at the same time, the consequences of the Hardcome cousins marrying each-others' betrothed, how Netty Sargent succeeds in holding on to her tied cottage by indulging in a little skulduggery, and how a band of tipsy church musicians confuse a Sunday service for a Saturday night knees-up.
These are just some of the stories that make up "The Casterbridge Tales".
Yes - they're all here; the hilarious, the tragic, the ironic and even the supernatural. Join "A Few Crusted Characters" on their journey from Casterbridge to Longpuddle, as they compete to tell the very best yarn of them all!
The Casterbridge Tales
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