The Canterbury Tales - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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Performance history in South Africa

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Sources

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The Canterbury Tales opera by Erik Chisholm

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The Canterbury Tales (South African adaptation)

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: Premiere performance by the [[University of Cape Town Opera School]], directed by [[Robert Mohr]] (October 1961).
+: Premiere performance by the [[University of Cape Town Opera School]]  at the [[Little Theatre]], directed by [[Robert Mohr]], with [[Robert Garcia]], [[Ernest Dennis]] and [[Albie Louw]] as the murderous three rogues in "The Pardoner's Tale" (October/November 1961).
 : ''[[The Pardoner’s Tale]]'' from Chisholm's opera presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] in a double bill with his [[Dark Sonnet]] (5–7 February)
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 [[Wayne Muller]]. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 * ''[[Canterbury Tales]]'' - a musical by Hill, Hawkins and Coghill
-* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' - an opera by Erik Chisholm
+* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' - an opera by [[Erik Chisholm]]
 * ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' - a South African musical version by [[Darryl Nel]]
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 : Staged by the [[JODS]] in the [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]], directed by [[Daniel Thorndike]], with [[Phillip Boucher]] (Host), [[Rigby Foster]] (Knight), [[Ian Hamilton]] (Squire), [[Joey van Rooyen]] (Prioress), [[Sheila Ferguson]] (Nun), [[Hugh Rouse]] (Priest), [[David Chrichton]] (Cook), [[Ian Kemm]] (Friar), [[Marjorie Gordon]] (Wife of Bath), [[Kerry Jordan]] (Miller), [[George Korelin]] (Steward), [[Billy Boyle]] (Clerk of Oxford), [[Gabriel Bayman]] (Merchant), [[Louis Ife]] (Chaucer) and others. Musical direction by [[Thomas Erskine]] and choreography by [[Geoffrey Sutherland]].
-=''The Canterbury Tales'' opera by Erik Chisholm=
+=''The Canterbury Tales'' opera by [[Erik Chisholm]]=
 ==Original text==

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 : Premiere performance by the [[University of Cape Town Opera School]], directed by [[Robert Mohr]] (October 1961).
-: ''[[The Pardoners Tale]]'' from Chisholm's opera presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] in a double bill with his [[Dark Sonnet]] (5–7 February)
+: ''[[The Pardoner’s Tale]]'' from Chisholm's opera presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] in a double bill with his [[Dark Sonnet]] (5–7 February)
 = ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' (South African adaptation) =

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 : Premiere performance by the [[University of Cape Town Opera School]], directed by [[Robert Mohr]] (October 1961).
-: "The Pardoners Tale" from Chisholm's opera presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] in a double bill with his [[Dark Sonnet]] (5–7 February)
+: ''[[The Pardoners Tale]]'' from Chisholm's opera presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] in a double bill with his [[Dark Sonnet]] (5–7 February)
 = ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' (South African adaptation) =

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	''[[Standard Bank National Schools Festival]]'' programme, 2005		''[[Standard Bank National Schools Festival]]'' programme, 2005
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		+	[[Wayne Muller]]. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', a stage adaptation of a collection of Chaucer's stories from ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' by [[Darryl Nel]](2005).
 ==Original text==
-This adaptation was commissioned by the [[Grahamstown Foundation]] for the [[National Schools Festival]] in 2005.
+It is a contemporary trilingual production in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa, and also features music performed by the cast and a live band. This adaptation was commissioned by the [[Grahamstown Foundation]] for the [[National Schools Festival]] in 2005.
 The production featured four of Chaucer's Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Miller's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale.

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 The stories have often been adapted for stage performance and have been the thematic source of a number of original plays.
-'''Among those performed in South Africa have been the following (for details of the play and its South African performances, click on the title to go to the particular entry).'''
+'''Among those performed in South Africa have been the following:
 = ''[[Canterbury Tales]]'' musical by Hill, Hawkins and Coghill =