In late 14th Century London, a group of pilgrims
meet at the Tabard Inn to embark upon a pilgrimage on horseback to Canterbury
Cathedral to visit the shrine of “the holy blissful martyr,” Thomas à Becket.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales details the
tales they tell to pass the time along the way. In early 21st
Century Chicago, a group of pilgrims meet at Union Station to embark upon a
pilgrimage by train to Memphis to visit Graceland during “the rock and roll
blissful martyr” Elvis’s Death Week. In The
Graceland Tales, experience the camaraderie or lack thereof among these
modern-day pilgrims as they tell their tales of community, of love, of exploits
and sexploits, some whimsical, some profound.
No comments:
Post a Comment