STAGE TUBE: Director Miles Potter Introduces THE THREE MUSKETEERS at Stratford 2013

Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2013 season, the first season with Antoni Cimolino as Artistic Director, will feature The Three Musketeers by Peter Raby, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas and directed by Miles Potter. The production will run at the Festival Theatre, may 18 through October 19, with the opening slated for June 1, 2013. Potter introduces the show in the video below!

Vowing eternal comradeship - "All for one, one for all!" - the cadet D'Artagnan and his new friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers, risk their lives to protect Louis XIII from the machinations of the villainous Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter, a wily adventuress as dangerous as she is beautiful.

The 2013 season begins on April 23 and runs until October 20, featuring Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, Tommy, Blithe Spirit, Othello, Measure for Measure, Mary Stuart, Waiting for Godot and two new Canadian plays, Taking Shakespeare and The Thrill. To order tickets, call 1.800.567.1600 or visit www.stratfordfestival.ca.

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