The Canterbury Tales Remixed
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 4, 2011
Closed Jan 8, 2012
Opened Dec 4, 2011
Closed Jan 8, 2012
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Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales comes to vivid life in an "entertaining and brilliant" (Time Out) virtuoso performance linking today's hip-hop lyrics with the greatest stories ever told. Framed by gripping re-imaginings of the epic poems Gilgamesh and Beowulf, Canadian hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman forges a new masterpiece out of the rawest material etched onto vinyl, or carved into clay tablets. Just like the most heart-wrenching songs by Eminem or Kanye West, these ancient Tales are infused with lust, betrayal, infidelity, greed, jealousy, ambition, and the endless struggles between men and women seeking happiness. Baba Brinkman brings you a rich theatrical experience filled with laugh-out-loud hilarity and riveting storytelling, tracing a thread from Chaucer's venal Merchant and sensuous Wife of Bath to the muscular heroes of ancient lore, so similar to today's hip hop stars in their perpetual quest for glory. The Canterbury Tales Remixed is a truly modern telling of classic tales that will amaze young and old alike.
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Baba Brinkman brings a semester's worth of medieval literature squarely into the 21st century with The Canterbury Tales - Remixed, at the Soho Playhouse, recasting three of Geoffrey Chaucer's much-studied stories, along with two other great poetic epics, as rap/hip-hop narratives.
It's a conceit that's not only audacious, but also astute (there is a certain correlation between oral storytelling traditions and today's music), and more often than not, the fleet show proves to be a diverting -- and impressive -- showcase for the performer's unique talents.
Brinkman bookends his reimaginings of Chaucer's stories with two other pieces of epic poetry: the show begins with the Middle Eastern t[...]