City of Ladies
She wrote in defense of women who like herself endured the terror and hardships rained upon them during the Hundred Years’ Wars.
Written by Lorraine Liscio
Paris 1418, three years after France’s defeat at Agincourt. Writer Christine de Pizan has already achieved notoriety in France and elsewhere in Europe. Now with her most important book, The Book of the City of Ladies, she faces two obstacles: the Chancellor of the Sorbonne and the Burgundy court, not to mention another war. Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies was presented in Cambridge in celebration with the Boston Public Library’s extensive exhibit of medieval manuscripts. Based on a true story.
“They will read this book. It will change women’s lives. It will change everyone’s life.” - Christine de Pizan, City of Ladies
2016 production
November 7, 2016
World Premiere – Equity Staged Reading
A collaboration between The Nora Theatre Company and the creative team of Punctuate4 Productions for Black Box Lab Stage284. The reading was part of the That’s What She Said: A Feminine Perspective series.
Produced by Lee Mikeska Gardner and Patricia Peterson Jamison
Directed by Myriam Cyr
Music by Stephen Bates, lute, and Douglas Freundlich, recorder
Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA
CAST
Christine de Pizan: Debra Wise*+(AEA)
Royal Duke of France: J.T. Turner*+(AEA)
Sister Marie, Daughter: Sarah Oakes Muirhead*+(AEA)
Gerson: Barlow Adamson*+(AEA)
Anastasia: Linda Goetz
Montreuil: Phil Thompson
Sarto: John Manning
Italian Emissary: Giulio Jesse Garlick*(AEA)
Gigot: Nate Punches
Didi, Young
Soldier: Jay Pension
Nun: Lindsay Pennington
Nun: Lisa Nguyen
Stage Directions Reading: Eve Passeltiner*+(AEA)(SAG-AFTRA)
*Member of Actor’s Equity
+Member of SAG-AFTRA
