Die drei Musketiere

In the organizer's words:

Alexandre Dumas achieved worldwide fame with his novel "The Three Musketeers", which was published in installments in the French newspaper "Le Siècle" in 1844. The story of the adventures of the four friends was soon discovered for the stage and, from the 1920s onwards, for film. The exciting plot in the historical context of pre-revolutionary France, the differentiated protagonists, the fast-paced fight scenes and the memorable dialogues, some of which are characterized by sharp wit, have since lent themselves to a highly amusing theatrical spectacle.

The Theater Poetenpack version tells the story of D'Artagnan, who is drawn from sleepy provincial Gascony to the center of the nation, Paris. There, in politically confused times, he wants to fight as a musketeer on the side of King Louis XIII against the intriguing dealings of Cardinal Richelieu and his mysterious spy Lady de Winter. At first, not without problems, he has to get to know his three comrades-in-arms in duels, who then form the successful quartet with him in the course of the story. Their motto for the joint fight: "One for all - all for one!"

Of course, the Theater Poetenpack presents this historical heroic panopticon with a small group of actors*, not without ironic distance from the classic cloak-and-dagger drama and with a wink.