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A romantic musical of derring-do ; Actors at Exeter Northcott will be getting the chop all next week in front of a paying audience - with a working guillotine.

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From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
Date: 20080425
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Actors at Exeter Northcott will be getting the chop all next week in front of a paying audience - with a working guillotine.

The theatre is staging The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy's romantic saga of derring-do set amid the guillotine-ridden French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

Performed by Exeter Amateur Operatic Society to mark its return to the refurbished Exeter Northcott, the musical tells the tale of baronet Sir Percival Blakeney and his secret society of 19 English aristocrats who pose as fops while daringly rescuing their French counterparts from the daily executions on ...

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