Emilie"La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight (review)
Emilie is like a perfectly icy glass of champagne laced with bitters. Avant Bard's scintillating production of Lauren Gunderson's play about Enlightenment-era scientific genius and mistress of Voltaire (usually, the order is reversed so her affiliation with a famous man comes first) La Marquise du Chatelet"the Emilie of the title"sparkles with wit, intelligence and passion […] The post Emilie"La Marquise du Cha…