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Cañada College Theater Arts Presents:
Left to right: Claire Cover as Milady Du Winter, Tom Rehor as Cardinal Richelieu, Ben Farber as D’Artagnan and Chelsea Hinkson as Constance
The Three
Musketeers
& the Famous Female
Duelist of France
Cañada College in Redwood City presents
“The Three Musketeers and the Famous
Female Duelist of France,” a world premier
of an original adaptation by Anna Budd of
the classic Alexandre Dumas novel.
Budd introduces an authentic historical figure into the classic
story: La Maupin, a 17th-century French swordswoman, adventuress
and opera star, who was said to have been “born with masculine
inclinations.” She sang, dueled and intrigued in the streets of Paris
very close to the same period in which the Three Musketeers
— Athos, Porthos and Aramis — first encountered D’Artagnan, the
young adventurer freshly arrived to Paris, eager to prove himself
worthy to become a Musketeer.
Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D’Artagnan and La Maupin struggle
to protect Queen Anne’s secret — her love affair with the Duke of
Buckingham — as the manipulative and sinister Cardinal Richelieu
employs the Milady Du Winter in his efforts to expose the Queen and
weaken the young and inexperienced King Louis XIII. Much dueling,
intrigue, drunken brawls and love affairs ensue in this genderbending,
swashbuckling adventure!
Budd directed Cañada College’s fall production, “Twilight Los
Angeles, 1992” by Anna Deavere Smith. She joined the faculty last fall
after working at the College of the Siskiyous in Shasta.
Performances will be held at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April
3; Friday, April 4; Saturday, April 5; Friday, April 11; and
Saturday, April 12. A special matinee will be held on
Sunday, April 13, at 2 p.m. All shows are in the Flex
Theatre, Building 3, Room 129, on the Cañada College
campus at 4200 Farm Hill Boulevard, Redwood City.
Tickets are $12 general admission and $8 for students
and seniors.
Tickets will be available at the box office, or
reservations can be made by calling 650-306-3396.
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