The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is pleased to announce the Company for David Adjmi's new play, Marie Antoinette, directed by Rebecca Taichman, with choreography by Karole Armitage, in a co-production with Yale Repertory Theatre. The production begins previews on Saturday, September 1, and runs through Saturday, September 29, with press opening on Friday, September 7 at 7:00pm.
From the mind of rising star David Adjmi, playwright of last year's Off-Broadway phenomenon, Elective Affinities, comes this barbed and brassy comedy. Marie Antoinette provides a peek into the life of everyone's favorite representative of the 1% - the infamous Queen of France and cake enthusiast. Though she delights and inspires her subjects with her three-foot tall wigs and extravagant haute couture, times change and even the most fashionable queens go out of style.
The cast includes Brooke Bloom as Marie Antoinette, Fred Arsenault as Emperor Joseph of Austria, Hannah Cabell as Yolande de Polignac, Andrew Cekala as the Dauphin, David Greenspan as Sheep, Greg Keller as Louis XVI, Vin Knight as the Royalist, Polly Lee as Therese de Lamballe, Cameron Scoggins as Axel Fersen, Jo Lambert and Teale Sperling as Marie's coterie, and Brian Wiles as Guard.
A.R.T. set for Marie Antoinette