Kiln Theatre’s production of Zadie’ Smith’s Chaucer adaptation is now available to watch on National Theatre at Home. Pour yourself a drink and settle in for this raucous take on of The Wife Of Bath as Zadie Smith transports you back to Kilburn High Road:
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A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gift of the gab: she can rewrite mistakes into triumphs, turn pain in犀利士 to parables, and her love life’s an epic poem. They call her The Wife of Willesden…
A play that celebrates the human knack for telling elaborate tales, especially about our own lives.