Marie Antoinette at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Marie Antoinette

Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW Washington

We all know the famous story of the iconic and controversial Marie Antoinette. But was she just a shallow, rich party girl, or a tragic figure constructed by a culture of luxury and celebrity? Through David Adjmi’s incisive contemporary lens, history’s most notorious queen becomes a full-blooded, complex, and tragic heroine who realizes too late that there’s an unstoppable revolution brewing outside her window. This is a Marie Antoinette for today: a potent symbol of all the things that keep us from seeing the real forces bearing down on us: our cult of celebrity, our fatuous politics, and a pace of change we can hardly fathom.

Thru - Oct 12, 2014

Wednesdays: 8:00pm

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 3:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Price: $55 - $73

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 2 hours with 1 intermission

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Marie Antoinette Reviews

Average Rating based on 6 reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...What the play ultimately conveys is sympathy for Antoinette in her gilded cage. It’s Urnov’s staging that resonates, with its vivid depiction of the brutality that can be unleashed whenever history reverses course."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...In Woolly Mammoth’s Marie Antoinette the doomed, dark-shades donning Queen of France enters with two ladies-in-waiting. She slips off her robe, revealing an oh-so-modern two-piece bathing suit. She steps into her miniature swimming pool—aka jacuzzi—while one of her ladies lies on the green carpet, sun reflector tanning her already glowing bronze skin. Then the Queen bends forward and snorts, as in a long line–not of succession–but of the rich man’s Aspirin or the poor man’s Pearl."

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- Robert Michael Oliver

Washington City Paper - Highly Recommended

"...That military buzz makes her look tougher and more vulnerable, somehow, after Marie’s Marge Simpson–height wigs (which, like her swimsuits, gowns, and eventually rags, are by Helen Huang) are taken along with the rest of her possessions, but she doesn’t need any help breaking our hearts. Joe Isenberg is very funny as the hapless Louis XVI, and James Konicek has a haunting turn as one of Marie’s jailers, his face painted in the colors of the revolution. But it’s Gilbert’s show, and as an indictment of a culture that considers anonymity worse than infamy, it’s a knockout."

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- Chris Klimek

The Georgetowner - Highly Recommended

"...But what makes the play is the transcendent performance of Kimberly Gilbert as the queen. It’s a somewhat unexpected star turn because Gilbert has built a longish list of credits with a persona that seems modern, no matter what (she had just completed a role in the reprise of “Stupid F----ng Bird”). It does here too, and yet she’s found a way to be Marie in her own time. She’s a dreamy teen at first, wistfully wishing to be back in the bucolic Austrian countryside, frustrated with the king, clueless about the mob and her situation."

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- Gary Tischler

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...Ultimately, the last barriers between Marie and Revolutionary reality are torn down. And we all know how it ends; there are no secret twists or fantastical developments. Urnov and his production team, Kristy Matero (Production Stage Manager), Misha Kachman (Set Designer), Jen Schriever (Lighting Design), Eric Shimelonis (Composer/Sound Designer), Gary Logan (Vocal Director), Helen Huang (Costume and Wig Designer) and Kirsten Bowen (Production Dramaturg) produce a mesmerizing spectacular well worth the trip to Chinatown. After all, there is nothing more Washingtonians love than watching those in power squirm."

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- Jennifer Minich

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

So, the great nation of France is saddled with crushing national debt. They’re battered from war, the people are starving, and a revolutionary ember crackles quietly beneath the surface of the political landscape. Sounds like a great time for a fashion show!

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- Jon Boughtin

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