The Three Musketeers - Sanssouci Summer Theater

With his novel "The Three Musketeers," which Alexandre Dumas published in installments in the French newspaper "Le Siècle" in 1844, the poet achieved worldwide fame. Soon, the story of the adventures of the four friends was also discovered for the stage and, since the 1920s, for film. The thrilling plot set against the historical backdrop of pre-revolutionary France, the well-drawn protagonists, the fast-paced fight scenes, and the memorable dialogues, some of which are marked by sharp wit, have since lent themselves to a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle. In the version by the theater Poetenpack, the story of D'Artagnan is told, who leaves the sleepy provincial Gascony for the heart of the nation, Paris. There, in politically tumultuous times, he aims to serve as a musketeer on the side of King Louis XIII against the scheming machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his mysterious spy, Lady de Winter. More information: The Three Musketeers.