2025 Spring production of "The Masked Musketeer"
Directed by Teri Drew & Steve Gibson
Performance dates: March 20th-23rd, 2025
In 2020, the High Desert Community Theater Guild work to get this same
play ready for audiences. We were 1 week away from performing when the world
shut down with the COVID pandemic. Fast forward 5 years, same play, new
directors and mostly new cast, we are excited to bring this play back to life
for our audiences.
The men of a small Spanish village are called to Madrid by
the king, leaving only the women and three unruly “boys” behind. It
doesn’t take long for the village to be overrun with bandits, so the lazy
Lorenzo, Mateo and Felipe take it upon themselves to become musketeers.
Easier said than done! These wanna-be swashbucklers are more like knee
bucklers, and they can’t even get the saying right! (All for three and
three for all?!) Meanwhile, the women are coping with their own
problems: poor saloon owner Lucia must deal with the bandits drinking all
the town’s sarsaparilla, Sancha doesn’t have anyone to chop her firewood, and
Corina is busy preparing for her wedding but still needs a groom! The
women villagers grow discouraged until a masked musketeer swoops in to help
Mateo and his compadres fight off the bandits before mysteriously
disappearing. When the bandits find out the town has a hidden treasure,
they take a hostage, demanding to have it and the masked musketeer delivered to
them... or else!
