Eighteenth-Century Comedy
The Scottish Masking Company
presents
An Eighteenth-Century Comedy Double Bill
Venue:
Masquers (in order of appearance)
Mercury (Jupiter's messenger) - Christopher Hobkirk
Paris (mortal son of Priam, King of Troy) - Stephen Chaundy
Juno (wife of Jupiter) - Elizabeth Fletcher
Pallas (goddess of arts and arms) - Lottie Horsman
Venus (goddess of love) - Irene Drummond
Jupiter (ruler of the heavens) - Nicholas Jones
Momus (fictional satirist of the gods) - Nicholas Macklon
Erynnis (spirit of evil and discord) - David Pounder
Bridget Biagi - director
Christopher Bell - conductor
Michael Burden - producer
Gordon Hughes - lighting
Daphne Pratt - costumes
Neil Metcalfe - repetiteur
Alison Prain - publicity
Programme
The Judgement of Paris (c. 1741) ... Thomas Arne
Libretto by William Congreve
Setting: Arcadia
INTERVAL
The Golden Pippin ... Libretto and pastiche score by Kane O'Hara (1773)
Setting: Jupiter's Thunderbolt Casino
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Tonight you will see the same story twice. In the first half of the evening 'The Judgement of Paris' will be played. It will be followed by 'The Golden Pippin', a satire on the same subject. Each character is his own burlesque, except the figures of Momus and Erynnis, who manipulate the action only in the second work.
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Performance Type:
Programme notes by Michael Burden.
Advertised as 'A rare opportunity to see a masque by one of the most sophisticated Restoration playwrights, followed by the first performance since the eighteenth-century of its Burlesque, in which the Goddesses cheat at cards'.
Promoter:
The performance was repeated on Saturday 7 November.