“The Canterbury Tales” Begins!

On Sunday we had our traditional potluck and first read through for “The Canterbury Tales.”   We ate a ridiculous amount of good food and then settled down to read the script out loud for the first time.

Karen Paone (cast), Tad Janes (director), Pat McDonald (props), Reiner Prochaska (adapter, cast), Carly Lawrence (cast) and Joe Jallete (cast)

Ken Poisson (stage manager), Moses Goldberg (cast), Tom Majarov (sound designer), Bill Stitely (cast), Karen Paone (cast).  Not pictured are assistant stage manager Sarah Shuman, set designer Mark Barnhart, costumer designer and cast member Julie Herber and costume designer Sherry Shaner.

And Reiner read a bit of “The Canterbury Tales” to us – first in the old English in which Geoffrey Chaucer wrote it, and then in modern English:

The show opens March 26th!