From left: Alicia Tirey, Melissa O'Neil and Kaitlyn Marshall in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
From left: Melissa O'Neil and Zach Poster in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
Grayson Smith and Melissa O'Neil in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
Melissa O'Neil as Marie Antoinette in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
From left: Alicia Tirey, Melissa O'Neil and Kaitlyn Marshall in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
CONWAY — M&D Playhouse is presenting a contemporary take on the doomed 18th century queen of France in David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway.
For a long time, Antoinette was portrayed as a callous, oblivious villain in the story of the French Revolution. She was the queen who partied and lived lavishly while her subjects starved. Adjmi doesn’t shy away from Antoinette’s lesser qualities — the script shows her as almost proudly uneducated — but also portrays her sympathetically and as a tragic figure.
From left: Melissa O'Neil and Zach Poster in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
Melissa O'Neil as Marie Antoinette in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
Grayson Smith and Melissa O'Neil in M&D Playhouse's production of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” which opened Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway. (LISA DUFAULT PHOTO)
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