The Canterbury Tales Remixed
Canadian hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman brings Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales to vivid life in a delightful one-man show linking today's hip-hop lyrics with the greatest stories ever told.
The Canterbury Tales Remixed retells three of Chaucer’s stories (those of the Pardoner, Merchant and Wife of Bath), along with versions of the pre-Chaucer legends of Gilgamesh and Beowulf.
Brinkman is a rap artist, writer, and former tree-planter who worked in the Rocky Mountains every summer for over ten years, personally planting more than one million trees. He is also a scholar with a master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. His thesis drew parallels between the worlds of hip-hop music and literary poetry.
Brinkman has written or co-written five hip-hop theatre shows, including The Canterbury Tales Remixed, The Rap Guide to Evolution, and The Rebel Cell, with MC Dizraeli. He is the founder of Lit Fuse Records, which represents Aaron Nazrul and the Boom Booms, Smoky Tiger, and Mud Sun, as well as his own music. Besides executive producing and developing new talent through his label, Brinkman has recorded and released seven solo albums since 2004.
The Rap Guide to Evolution won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2009, and went on to tour the USA, Australia, and the UK, including three appearances at regional TED conferences. The Rap Guide to Evolution and The Canterbury Tales Remixed both recently played extended off-Broadway runs at the Soho Playhouse.
Tickets are free, at the door (tickets required for entry to theater). Tickets will be available on a first come, first serve basis.
For more information on Brinkman’s The Canterbury Tales Remixed, go to http://www.bababrinkman.com/
