A Masque from Italy (2020)

A Masque from Italy is a 2020 film by Matt Hulse and Ben Nealon. It consists of dramatised readings of ten poems written by Agatha Christie in the early 20th century, on the theme of Commedia dell'arte. This group of poems was published as one of the four parts in the 1925 collection The Road of Dreams.

The film was made as a part of the Poems from the Palace project, for the Palace Theatre in Paignton and first premiered on 17 Dec 2020.

Cast

 * Chloe Newsome as Columbine
 * Matt Hulse as Harlequin
 * Ben Nealon as Pierrot
 * Liza Goddard as Pierrette
 * Susan Penhaligon as Pulcinella
 * Philip Lowrie as Pierrot grown old
 * Robert Duncan as Punchinello