Steven Sutcliffe (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)
Buckle Your Swashes!
Director Miles Potter helms an impressively large production
by Stuart Munro
@StuartMunroTO
The seventeenth century is alive and well at the Festival Theatre thanks to a new production of The Three Musketeers, adapted by Peter Raby from Alexandre Dumas’s novel of the same name. The story follows the exploits of d’Artagnan as he makes his way from Gascony to Paris in hopes of joining the King’s Guards, the Musketeers. Along the way he befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, falls in love with the beautiful Constance Bonacieux, makes enemies of religious and social leaders, and gets caught up in a religio-political drama that has the potential to tear France apart, and England along with it. If it sounds like a lot of story, let me assure you it is. And while the pace can sometimes be difficult to keep up with, the end result is one of good cheer and great action.
