Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh was Earl Production’s inaugural theatrical production. It tells the true story of the friendship between Marie Antoinette and her portraitist, Madame Vigee le Brun, and the fictionalized love triangle between them and the Comte Alexis de Ligne. Through the lens of these intertwined relationships, The Color of Flesh explores how personal allegiances can affect the world stage, and vice versa. The play spans 20 years, from the early days of Marie Antoinette’s reign to a powerful scene in her jail cell, weeks away from execution as one of the villains of the French Revolution.
The Color of Flesh was initially produced at the award-winning New Jersey Repertory Company to rave reviews in 2003 and will have two productions in Spain in 2007, one in Spanish translation and the other in Basque. Readings of the play have starred such diverse and high-caliber talent as Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Shue and Dustin Hoffman.
The New York City premiere of the play was mounted by Earl Productions in the Spring of 2007, and the sold out production played to rave reviews in the New York Times among others, and led to the publication of the play by Dramatists Play Service and subsequent productions at the Caldwell Studio Theatre in Florida and an upcoming production in Australia. Earl Productions LLC will remount the original production at St. Luke's Theatre on West 46th Street this summer, opening July 10th.
To purchase the play: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3885
For more information about Elisabeth Vigee le Brun and to see her portraits of Marie Antoinette:
http://www.batguano.com/
A Brush with Georgia O’Keeffe was mounted by the WorkShop Theatre Company in the Spring of 2008, and the sold out production is being transferred by Earl Productions LLC, in association with Edmund Gaynes and Julia Beardlesy, to St. Luke's Theatre on West 46th Street this summer, opening June 21st.