After scoring rave reviews at the 2011 Castlemaine Fringe Festival, Emilie's Voltaire is the returning for a second and final season at The Red Room Theatre in Campbells Creek.
The company presented the Australian premier of the Arthur Giron play, which won the 2009 Galileo Prize.
Directed and performed by Kenneth MacLeod and Kate Stones, Emilie's Voltaire explores the dynamic, sometimes explosive, fiercely creative love affair between maverick philosopher-poet Voltaire and aristocratic misfit-mathematician Emilie du Chatelet.
Set in pre-revolutionary France, the play spans the 16-year period of their love affair.
The dialogue sparkles with wit and lusty romance, breathing vibrant life into these two fascinating historical figures, tracing how they made their significant individual marks on the development of humanism, science and the modern world.
The play will appeal to hopeless romantics, history nerds, star-gazers and lovers of fine coffee.
The Red Room Theatre is an initiative of Kenneth MacLeod and Kate Stones who first worked together in 2010, playing the villain and villainess in the Castlemaine Theatre Company production, Dirty Work at the Crossroads, and then again on George Orwell's 1984.
The Red Room is a based at their home in Campbell's Creek, and featured as part of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival's Theatre in the House program.
MacLeod is a long standing resident of Castlemaine, and has been involved in numerous local productions. He was involved in professional theatre in Brisbane and Melbourne for many years before settling in Central Victoria. Stones worked in amateur productions as a young woman in London.
If you missed the first season, take a tip and don't miss this final chance to see Emilie's Voltaire when it returns from June 22-25 at 8pm. Tickets are $20; bookings call 5472 3153. The Red Room Theatre is at 101 Main Road, Campbell's Creek.
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