The Canterbury Tales is about an unrelated group of pilgrims traveling together on a pilgrimage. One of the major aspects of the journey is the unique diversity of the characters. There are knights, nuns, monks, lower-class tradesman and single women. They interact together and tell each other their tales. The play was presented to the audience in a conventional manner, and took place in a thrust theater.
The performance by the actors was mediocre, but it is understandable being that it was a college production. The reasons for this were that they weren't believable in there actions, I don't feel that they grasped the true feelings of the characters that they were portraying. The performers would have sparked the audience more if they showed more enthusiasm and corisma in their roles. Although I did appreciate how the actors worked together as a unit in putting
Costumes, well somebody might be missing bed sheets, because that's what the costumes appeared to be made out of, they were ugly and unattractive. If your going to put on a performance for an audience of college kids, try to make the actors more attractive by putting them in something nice. The only part of the play where I thought the costume was nice, was when one of the girls bent over and showed her behind, rather shocking, but this was good because It woke me up from the sleep I was about to fall into. The fact that I was falling asleep could have been prevented if the lighting was a little better, I could barely see what was occurring on stage. At the next production they should hand out night vision goggles, and than I might show more appreciation for this play.
on this production, there didn't seem to be a sole leading role through out the play and ea
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