"Marie Antoinette" World Premiere in Cambridge
Staged on a colorful plexiglass set designed by Riccardo Hernandez (who also designed The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), with stunning costumes and wigs by Gabriel Berry, Adjmi's highly entertaining telling of the French Queen's story takes its fair share of liberties with history, but displays obvious parallels between the economic inequality of her time and ours as we teeter on the brink of an important election.