![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two witches, who do their best to discover the ghost's identity, had large and important parts to cope with. Both gave excellent and often very funny performances. It begins superbly with a crash of Phantom music and assorted characters on the (intentionally) gloomy stage, including one Agnes Nitt, a would-be opera star (Rhiannon Bland) and Christine (Jess Spath) as the singer in residence. Since the ghost has taken to killing people and laying down the law as to which singer should take the lead part, there is much for those in charge to worry about. The story, a spoof on Phantom of the Opera, is concerned with a masked ghost in a theatre where a production is about to take place. Maskerade, a play adapted by Stephen Briggs from Terry Pratchett's book of the same name, is full of colourful characters, packed with Pratchett humour and Newbury Dramatic Society deserve a pat on the back for thinking out of the box and choosing it for their return to The Watermill. ![]()
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