Beowulf Alley Theatre presents Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh

From: Artistic Director Beowulf Alley Theatre Company <theatre@beowulfalley.org> 

Sent: Nov 20, 2012 9:44 PM 

Subject: Marie Antoinette 

For Immediate Release
Please contact: Michael Fenlason 
520.882.0555 or theatre@beowulfalley.org



Beowulf Alley Theatre Company presents

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
by Joel Gross




Beowulf Alley Theatre Company presents Joel Gross's Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh, November 30^th through December 16^th, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2:30 PM at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6^th Avenue in downtown Tucson. Tickets are $20, $18 for seniors, military and teachers. As always, only $8 for students.
 
Joel Gross gives history a refreshingly human face in his richly detailed psychological study of an imagined love triangle between doomed French queen Marie Antoinette; her portrait painter, Elisabeth Vigée le Brun; and a fictitious radical leftist playboy-aristocrat, Count Alexis de Ligne, lover to both. Spanning two politically explosive decades surrounding the French Revolution,  this elegant, intimate drawing-room-and-boudoir drama looks at issues of money, class, art and humanity. This show is not suitable for young audiences.
Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh features Rachel Santay as Marie, Hilary Metzger as Elisabeth and Adrian Gomez as Alexis. Virginia Miller portrays Pierrot.  The play was directed by Teresa Simone. 
 

" Deftly [weaves] politics, history, art, and romance…" —BackStage. "The social and political are as wickedly intertwined as lovers' limbs." —OffOffOnline.com. "[The] French Revolution unfolds in the background of the domestic revelations, creating a heart-breaking and absorbing counterpoint." —Show Business Weekly. "Irreverent in his creation of a footnote to the French Revolution concerning lost hearts and lost heads…vivid characterizations…amusing…wrenching." —UPI. "One of the season's best…a white-hot play." —Star-Ledger. "Explores issues of class, many of them sounding quite contemporary, while creating a touching story of love." —NY Times. "