Chauntecleer and Pertelotte

Live Wire Theatre Presents Chauntecleer & Pertelotte

A Beasty Babel Fable

By Dougie Blaxland

Loosely based on Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale - an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens - Dougie Blaxland’s Chauntecleer & Pertlotte - subtitled “A Beasty Babel Fable” tells the quaint but utterly absurd story of how a jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel.

Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival, Chauntecleer & Pertelotte has also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the 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 “farmy-warmy” world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribald romp of a play performed at “breakneck speed”.

“ Wordcraft does not come much better than this; this is comedic and literary gold. ” Broadway Baby *****

“ Every so often a show comes along to remind us why we became interested in the theatre in the first place .” Fringe Review *****

“ Fun and frenzied, Chauntecleer and Pertelotte is a wonderful piece of physical theatre and each raunchy, rhyming line is delivered with relish .” Ham & High *****

“ Rude, lewd and great fun to see, Chauntecleer and Pertelotte will get your festival juices flowing. ” British Theatre Guide *****