Mask of Tragedy (audio story): Difference between revisions

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|image           = Mask of Tragedy cover.jpg  

|series         = '''[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories]]'''

|number         = 190

|doctor         = Seventh Doctor

|companions     = [[Ace]], [[Hex|Hector]]       

|enemy           = [[Cleon]]  

|setting         = [[Athens]], [[Greece]], [[BC#5th century B.C.|421 BC]]

|writer          = [[James Goss]]

|director        = [[Ken Bentley]]

|music           = [[Richard Fox]] and [[Lauren Yason]]

|sound           = [[Richard Fox]] and [[Lauren Yason]]

|publisher       = Big Finish Productions

|release date   = [[12 September (releases)|12 September]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]

|format         = 4 Parts, 2 CDs

|production code =  

|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-78178-331-3

|prev = Revenge of the Swarm (audio story)

|next = Signs and Wonders (audio story)

|cover = [[Tom Webster]]}}'''''Mask of Tragedy''''' was the one hundred and ninetieth story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]].

But life in Athens is no laughing matter. There’s the ever-present threat of invasion from the [[Sparta]]n horde. The [[plague]] that turns people into the walking dead. The [[slavery]]. The tyrannical rule of the paranoid, malicious Cleon and his network of informers. And the giant flying beetle with knives for wings that stalks the city streets at night.

==Plot==

=== Part One ===

=== Part Two ===

=== Part Three ===

=== Part Four ===

* [[Tyrgius]]/Slave Trader/Boy - [[Russell Bentley]]

* [[Telephus]]/[[Cisyphus]]/Old Man - [[Tim Treloar]]

* [[Adonia]]/[[Lysistrata]] - [[Emily Tucker]]

== References ==

* The Doctor wears a [[toga]]. However, he still carries his [[The Doctor's umbrella|umbrella]].

* Aristophanes is aware of the existence of [[time travel]] and asks Ace what century she is from. The Doctor tells her and Hector that Ancient Greece is a hotspot for time travelling tourists.

* The Doctor is Aristophanes' sponsor.

* The Doctor previously visited Athens in the company of [[Melanie Bush]], who corrected [[Euclid]]'s geometry.

* The Doctor refers to [[Wham!]], [[One Direction]] and [[Wikipedia]].

* This story was recorded at [[The Moat Studios]].

* During his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]], the Doctor found Aristophanes and [[Eratosthenes]] arguing in a [[library]] in [[Egypt]] in the [[BC#4th century B.C.|4th century B.C.]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Shadows (short story)|The Book of Shadows]]'') During his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], he and [[Leela]] met him at a gathering at [[Anaximander]]'s house. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brain of Socrates (short story)|The Brain of Socrates]]'')  

* {{bigfinish|releases/v/mask-of-tragedy-831|Mask of Tragedy}}

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