Marie Antoinette - The Color of Flesh

Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter, uses her affair with Count Alexis de Ligne, a left-leaning philanderer, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette

While Elisa uses the Queen to further her career and Alexis uses the Queen to further his political goals, both learn to love the woman they're exploiting

Elisa becomes the Queen's best friend, and Alexis becomes the Queen's lover

Elisa tries to end the scandalous affair between the Queen and Alexis, both out of concern for the Queen's political position and jealousy over Alexis' love, until the Revolution shatters all three of their lives

"The sweep of a historical novel ... real events swirl outside, while inside at Versailles, emotions swirl just as vigorously around a triangle of love and friendshipExplores issues of class, many of them sounding quite contemporary, while creating a touching story of love" ~ NY Times

"One of the season's best ... a white-hot play" ~ Star-Ledger