http://newstatesman.i2p/culture/theatre/2021/11/zadie-smiths-stage-debut-is-a-filthy-feminist-reworking-of-chaucer
Under Indhu Rubasingham’s direction, the cast – a landlady and her punters, who multi-role as the husbands, a pastor, St Paul and black Jesus, to name a few – frolic fluidly to a soundtrack of Kool & the Gang and Cardi B. This is let-your-hair-down Chaucer: at one point there is twerking. Alvita, played with big divorce energy by an intoxicating Clare Perkins, swaggers around in a tight scarlet dress that – to use a phrase of my mother’s – she “falls out of” carefreely.