Chauntecleer and Pertelotte

A jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel, in this wildly absurd piece of new writing by local esteemed playwright, Dougie Blaxland. Chantecleer and Pertelotte, (or A Beastly Babel Fable) is loosely based on Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale and is an Aesop Fable style play that is quaint, yet scandalous and absurd, yet entirely relatable. Winner: Best New Play (Brighton Festival) Nominee: Scotsman Fringe First Award (Edinburgh Festival) Nominee: Popcorn New Writing Award (Edinburgh Festival) Delivered in language combining elements of Chaucer with the 'nonsensical gobbledy-gook' pioneered by comedy greats Stanley Unwin and Kenneth Williams, Chauntecleer & Pertlotte has been described as 'comedic and literary gold'. With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxland's outlandish 'farmywarmy' world, Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play performed at 'breakneck speed'.