Musketeers invade Bamberg!

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In my last pic spam of my beautiful hometown, I mentioned the summer theatre festival taking place in one of the old residences, the Alte Hofhaltung. One of the plays this year is a dramatization of Dumas' Three Musketeers, which was basically fluffy fun, although for some reason while they only picked the first half of the novel (i.e. the affair with the queen's jewels), they included Mylady's death, which is problematical within the novel itself and even more so if you put it in the first half, because Mylady does most of her villainous deeds in the second. Still, other than that, it was a fun evening, one of the actors I've admired since teenagerdom played Richelieu, and it made for some neat pictures of Dumas' characters in my hometown.



First a quick reminder of the location, and also, I like our cathedral in the evening sunlight.





The ambulance was there just in case because of the heat, and sure enough, one old lady fainted. Anyway, the interior court and stage:



Living statues symbolizing the French court, I suppose:



D'Artagnan taking leave of his father:



The Cardinal's guards:



D'Artagnan squares off with Rochefort:



Richelieu conspires with Mylady:



Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artagnan and Monsieur de Treville:



Fencing, of course, was a big part of the evening:



Richelieu and the king: