"Marie Antoinette" reigns in modern compassionate take on misunderstood queen

Related topics Yale Repertory TheatreYale RepMarie Antoinettetheater in Connecticut Rating for "Marie Antoinette" at Yale Rep 5 Advertisement David Adjmi's new play "Marie Antoinette," now enjoying a world premiere engagement at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre in collaboration with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., forces the audience to think about the French queen in a different way, to better understand the precarious situation in which she unwillingly found herself, and to relate to her on a more human, perhaps less judgmental level. Under Rebecca Taichman's clever direction, "Marie Antoinette" veers from what initially appears to be a satirical comedy...