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WEIS CENTER PRESENTS THE CANTERBURY TALES

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Date: 20060919
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Bucknell University issued the following press release:

The Aquila Theatre Company will perform its own riotous adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Saturday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. Tickets are $20. According to Bill Boswell, executive director of the Weis Center, Aquila describes its Canterbury Tales as a dynamic, deliciously saucy, eminently understandable, slightly naughty, surprisingly challenging, entertaining and romantic romp, as if Monty Python met Umberto Eco at a Medieval pageant.

"Since the Aquila ...

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