The City of Oxford Theatre Guild promises a colourful, fast-moving production when the curtain goes up on John O'Connor and Roger Simmonds new musical adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales at the Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday.

Ed Hassell in The Canterbury TalesThe company considers it one of the most exciting and certainly the most ambitious works they have done for some time, with the action shifted from medieval England to thirties' Hollywood.