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Wife\u003cbr\u003e Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life\u003cbr\u003e Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Willesden\u003c\/i\u003e follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. 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