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Terry Pratchett's MASKERADE

Thu, 15 July 1999, 10:32 pm
Sharon Malcolm1 post in thread
Blak Yak Theatre Presents:Terry Pratchett'sMASKERADEadapted by Stephen Briggsdirected by Nick DonaldSanctuary of song lovers, the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, rising nobbily overvast flooded cellars, hidden chambers long forgotten...For years the staff believed the source of all their luck to be a seldomglimpsed shadowy, cloaked figure. A supernatural spectre.The Opera Ghost.But now, as the Century of the Fruitbat draws to a close, accidents havebeen occurring. Opera people are being hanged, strangled, stabbed, andterrified by the presence of a mysterious phantom menace...As the corpses pile up, everybody becomes a suspect.Everybody except for Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, that is. They're inthe "City of Lice" determined to find out what's going on. And to take in abit of culture, of course,It's Grand Guignol* at its finest as things go from bad to badder and thenget worse.Blak Yak Theatre presents Maskerade in true operatic fashion. Only itdoesn't have any songs. Or any ballet. So it's not much like an opera atall really.But there is a masked Opera Ghost...And murders you can really hum.July 14, 16, 17; 21, 23, 24; 28, 30, 31.At Don Russell Performing Arts Centre, Murdoch Road, Thornlie.BOOKINGS: 9493 4577$12 Adults/ $10 Concession* Foreign for: "Big Guignol"

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