TB REGIONAL REVIEW: MARIE ANTOINETTE in DC
Was Marie Antoinette the Kim Kardashian of 18th-century France? Playwright David Adjmi finds some similarities between the two celebrities in his dizzyingly anachronistic play, now receiving a sumptuous production at Washington’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. In his portrayal of Marie Antoinette, Adjmi extrapolates from the facts: Marie (Kimberly Gilbert) was only 14 when she left her parents’ palace in Austria…