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Article: Tales of the unexpected; Terry Grimley meets Jonathan Munby and Rebecca Gatward, two-thirds of the directing team which has brought Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the RSC stage.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2005
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Byline: Terry Grimley
Imagine three directors rehearsing one company of 20 actors in 19 short plays performed over two evenings, and there in a nutshell you have the task the RSC set itself in staging Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Now previewing in the Swan Theatre at Stratford, the two-part production presented an unusual challenge to its trio of directors - RSC associate Gregory Doran and former assistants Jonathan Munby and Rebecca Gatward.
'At the beginning Greg got us all together and said his only criterion was that he wanted it to be ...
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