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  Gardens of Delight

An open air production inspired by tales from the Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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Cast:
Dan Armour
David Barber
Penny Capper
Susan Daniel
Julie Higginson

Original Music:
Nicholas Stacey

Lighting Design: Garry Preece

Set & Costume Design:
Jenny Snape

Stage Manager: Penny Edwards

Written & Directed by
Caroline Small

       


 

 

 
The Decameron is a collection of stories, written in 1350 by the Tuscan writer Giovanni Boccaccio.
They are told by ten young people, who have decamped to the hills outside Florence
to escape the plague, each telling a story every night for ten nights.
Famous for their earthy humour, these one hundred tales explore the themes of sex, love and human foible and since the middle ages, they have provided raw material for European literature including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and works by Keats.

Link to Decameron Web Site
Gardens of Delight is set forty years later, in 1390, when Filistrato, one of the original story tellers,
returns to the place where the Decameron was told and along with his household servants, re-enacts some of the tales.

The play was performed in the open air against a backdrop of the Derbyshire countryside
and, after sunset, in a candlelit courtyard.
Graphics & Photography: Stephen Hepworth
Special Thanks: Iris & Peter Pimm, Steve & Iris Wheeler, Mick Norton & West Packaging.		   Press Reviews x
 
   
 

Cotton Grass Theatre Company

2 Overdale, The Hills, Bradwell, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, S33 9GZ
Tel & Fax 01433 621 624xxEmail