The Canterbury Tales

“The performance was built around a broad selection of key characters, all with an ability to bring to the Tales their own interpretations through their diverse personalities. A thoroughly enjoyable evening and performance” said NIST Headmaster, Simon Leslie.

For three nights the senior production of The Canterbury Tales, under the direction and vision of Annie Millard and Roger Mantel, brought the NIST theatre alive through the tales of 14th Century author Geoffrey Chaucer. This zany comedy chronicled a group of hilarious characters as each competed in the telling of colourful stories with the hope of awakening the ‘not quite living but not quite dead’ Geoffrey Chaucer. The stories in this play are nothing short of hilarious with a witty, mature script and a brilliant cast of actors. From the nun’s priest to the knight and from the pardoner to the wife of Bath the characters in this play are wonderfully crafted. Today, some 700 years after the publication of The Canterbury Tales, the story still lends itself well to creative adaptations best evidenced by this brilliant production of NIST’s very own dynamic duo, Annie and Roger.

“It is just as we said in the play, ‘It is better in than out’” says senior student Syd Sethi in describing his experiences as an actor in the play “we didn’t know it would all come together so well, at first we didn’t really understand the concept and then after our first dress rehearsal I realized how funny the play was going to be. It was something new, it was something different, I have done numerous plays before but this time we had…weird, yes weird characters, interesting characters we had never done before and jokes that were mature”

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