Marie Antoinette
Creative Team
Director: Rebecca Taichman
Playwright: David Adjmi
Soho Rep | New York City
Yale Rep & ART Co-production
Photography by T. Charles Erikson (Yale & ART)
and Pavel Antonov (SoHo Rep)
DESIGNERS:
SETS: Riccardo Hernandez
LIGHTS: Christopher Akerlind
COSTUMES: Gabriel Berry (Yale Rep) Anka Lupez (Soho Rep)
SOUND: Matt Hubbs
“Director Rebecca Taichman beautifully matches Adjmi’s contemporary concepts and conceits … with visual and dramatic flair, including one coup de theatre that’s a corker.”
VARIETY
MARIE ANTOINETTE at SoHoRep
MARIE ANTOINETTE at Yale Rep and ART
VARIETY
“I’m a little bit trapped, I’m afraid,” says the not-so-poor-butterfly title character in David Adjmi’s audacious and stunning “Marie Antoinette…[Marin Ireland] gives a smashing performance in this bitter bonbon of a play, sure to find future life on Gotham stages and with audiences looking for theatricality, glamor, and a subversive streak.”
“Director Rebecca Taichman beautifully matches Adjmi’s contemporary concepts and conceits – celebrity is a big theme here – with visual and dramatic flair, including one coup de theatre that’s a corker.”
NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE
“High art on all levels, from coarse to cosmic, this is the kind of show that makes you appreciate the Yale Rep as more than a theater. The Rep joins the Center for British Art and the Yale Art Gallery as a third modern art institution on the block. It joins the Occupy movement and local community uprisings like New Have Rising as a spirited voice of the people. It promotes a vital reinterpretation of stuffy old history, as do the best Yale liberal arts classes. … It takes an old joke about an insensitive ruler and extends it into a frantically entertaining, fierce and fresh social satire. Revolutionary.”
BOSTON GLOBE
“The long-brewing revolutionary storm arrives with shocking suddenness, conjured by Taichman in a coup de theatre that puts an explosive point on the end of Marie’s world.”
HARTFORD CURRENT
“…trouble’s a-coming and when their over the top reign collapses (demonstrated in a stunning coup de theatre). The play takes a darker turn, while still being true to Adjmi’s voice and vision. That vision is supported brilliantly by Rebecca Taichman…”
TIMEOUT NEW YORK
“Four Stars…Rebecca Taichman, who directed the play’s lavish premiere at Yale Rep last year, has expertly scaled it back to a stark 90-minute version in a wide, shallow space, with harsh sound and light eruptions.”
VILLAGE VOICE
“Director Rebecca Taichman sensibly lets the actors indulge the comedy, even as she allows it to transform into something more troubling and sinister.”
NEW YORK POST
“A bracing new show…Invigorating, thanks to a remarkable cast and director Rebecca Taichman’s stylish production.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“The first act…is very funny. But Adjmi, working with ace director Rebecca Taichman, is after bigger game than this. By the time our title queen reaches her bitter end, you may be surprised at how quietly moving the journey has become.”
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