THE STORY: MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH is a dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years around the French Revolution. Elisabeth Vige le Brun, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter, uses her affair with Count Alexis de Ligne, a left-leaning philanderer, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette. While Elisa uses the Queen to further her career and Alexis uses the Queen to further his political goals, both learn to love the woman they're exploiting. Elisa becomes the Queen's best friend, and Alexis becomes the Queen's lover. Elisa tries to end the scandalous affair between the Queen and Alexis, both out of concern for the Queen's political position and jealousy over Alexis' love, until the Revolution shatters all three of their lives.

"The sweep of a historical novelreal events swirl outside, while inside at Versailles, emotions swirl just as vigorously around a triangle of love and friendshipExplores issues of class, many of them sounding quite contemporary, while creating a touching story of love." - NY Times. "Joel Gross gives history a refreshingly human face in his richly detailed psychological study of an imagined love triangle between doomed Marie Antoinette; her portrait painter, Elisabeth Vige 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, all rioting, beheading, and battling transpire offstage in this elegant, intimate drawing-room-and-boudoir drama. 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 headsvivid characterizationsamusingwrenching." - UPI. "One of the season's besta white-hot play." - Star-Ledger.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822222460

Stock code

9780822222460

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