1353

The Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio creates the Italian masterpiece The Decameron in response to the great bubonic plague of 1348 that had profound effects on the course of European history.

In The Decameron, ten storytellers shelter from the black death outside Florence, telling ten tales a night in their quarantine.

Bocaccio borrowed all the plots from existing ancient folk tales from all over the globe.

2020

1927’s show ROOTS is set to tour the globe but all touring is cancelled due to the pandemic

ROOTS is an anthology of ten ancient folk tales by anonymous authors, tales that have sprung from the imaginations of the ordinary men and women who made our world.

Some of the tales can be found in Bocaccio’s The Decameron.

We staged the tales, animated them, scored them by live instruments, actors, and a host of storytellers…

With theatres closed, the show patiently waits for the time it can be let out of it’s box.

But the tales themselves… are keen to be told….