Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Not Applicable
- 2M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573697821
A highly theatrical, fast, funny, sexy rediscovery of one of history's most intriguing women, Emilie defends her life and loves; and ends up with both a formula and a legacy that permeates history.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Not Applicable
- Target Audience: Adult
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Tonight, 18th century scientific genius Emile du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart? In this highly theatrical, fast, funny, sexy rediscovery of one of history's most intriguing women, Emilie defends her life and loves; and ends up with both a formula and a legacy that permeates history.
REVIEWS:
"An evening of humor and heartbreak with a powerhouse ending."
BroadwayWorld.com
"Emilie is quite the best play I have read in a very long time."
Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
"Gunderson possesses an antic imagination that seeks to invent its own rules. As soon as we're drawn in, she shakes us and whisks us 10 or 15 paces ahead."
Los Angeles Times
"The ambitious, non-linear experiment is a highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity."
LA/OC Examiner
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting
VOLTAIRE (V) – fifty, dressed immaculately in 18th Century fashion, charming, boyish
MARY-LOUISE – simple and stupid
DAUGHTER – direct and strong
JEAN-FRANÇOIS – young and doting, sincere
THE MARQUIS – serious but warm, very formal
MAUPERTUIS – sexy and academic
MARAIN – snide and proud
MOTHER – serious and wounded
MADAM GRAFFIGNY – obnoxious and rich
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