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Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight Presented by WAM Theatre
Please note: WAM is handling the pre-ticket sales for this event; the Shakespeare & Company Box Office will not be able to assist you with tickets until after December 1. Thank you.
Special limited-run of this 2013 WAM hit featuring original cast!
Special Early Purchase Offer:
Buy your ticket now and choose your date later.*
In February and March, a representative of WAM Theatre will contact you to choose a date and time. There will be ten performances to choose from over a two week period.
*Special early ticket purchase offer valid until the end of November and are non-refundable.
Production Dates:
March 30-April 9, 2017
Location:
Tina Packer Playhouse
Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble St, Lenox, MA 01240
Early Purchase "Buy Now/Choose Your Date Later" Tickets:
$30
Starting December 1, tickets will range from $35-$50
Emilie du Chatelet is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire but she was more than a great man's mistress. She was one of the leading interpreters of modern physics during the Age of Enlightenment. In this play Emilie must defend her life by tallying her achievements in Love and Philosophy-and searching for a formula that will convince the world of her worth.
In keeping with WAM Theatre's double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds from the box office will be donated to an organization that benefits women and girls.
What the Critics Said...
Highly Imaginative.,,,Highly Theatrical,,,,. The Berkshire Eagle
An absorbing evening of theatre for a sold out audience..,,Berkshire Fine Arts
What Audiences Said...
Emilie is everything I want in a theater experience: a great play about an intriguing, powerful woman, riveting acting, inspired directing, an artful set and engaging audience! SuEllen Hampkins
One of the most provocative, intelligent, funny, well acted, directed, written performances I've seen in a long time. Ellen Ring
The play was absolutely wonderful!I told six people about it and wish I had told more. They all came and all loved it. It was a rare find, even here in the Berkshires. I hope and expect that it will be back next season. More people deserve to see it. Thank you. Christine Zelehoski
Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight had its world premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif. The play has been described as fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy (The San Francisco Chronicle) and an ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity (LA/OC Examiner). WAM first staged the play in November of 2013 at the St. Germain Stage at Barrington Stage Company.
Playwright:
Playwright: Lauren Gunderson is an award-winning playwright living in San Francisco. She studied at Emory University and NYU's Tisch School of Performing Arts where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, The Magic, Actors Express, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, Playwrights Foundation, Impact Theatre, The Lark, and The O'Neill. Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight is published with Samual French. The first play in her Shakespeare Cycle, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, is now published with Playscripts, as is the second, Toil and Trouble. She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. Los Angeles Times calls Gunderson someone who 'possesses an antic imagination that seeks to invent its own rules. As soon as we're drawn in, she shakes and whisks us 10 or 15 paces ahead'.
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LocationShakespeare & Company - Tina Packer Playhouse (View)
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA 01240
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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