By Hoyt Hilsman
Lindy Nisbet, Beans
Morocco and Kent Stoddard
Director
Producer
Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Lighting Designer
Assistant Director
Original Music Composed
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Perfomed by |
Randal Hoey
Barbara
Beckley
Sherry Linnel
Tom Buderwitz
Bob Heller
Richard L. Pedersen
Eric Allaman
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CAST (in order of appearance):
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Stendhal
(pseudonym of
Marie-Henri Beyle), a writer
Claude, his servant
Mme. Jules Gaulthier, a
friend of Stendhal
Antoine Berthet, a farm
boy
Tutor, a veteran of the
Napoleonic Wars
Abbe, Prefect of the Seminary
at Grenoble
M. Michoud, Mayor of a
small town near Grenoble
Mme. Michoud, his wife
Waiter
Monk
Judge
Prison Guard
Executioner
Supernumeraries
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John Apicella
Vince Acosta
Ruth Crawford
Kent Stoddard
Keith Mills
Don Woodruff
Beans Morocco
Lindy Nisbet
Vince Acosta
Vince Acosta
Keith Mills
Vince Acosta
Vince Acosta
D.J. Wendell
Kimberly Nelson
Catherine Clark
Peter Hutcheson
Phil Dorr
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The play takes place in Paris
and Grenoble from 1827 to 1828.
ACT I
Scene 1: Stendhal’s
Apartment in Paris
Scene 2: Antoine’s
Hayloft
Scene 3: The Seminary
Scene 4: The Michoud
Living Room
Scene 5: Stendhal’s
Apartment
Scene 6: The Michoud
Living Room
Scene 7: The Michoud
Living Room
Scene 8: The Bedrooms
of Antoine and Mme. Michoud
Scene 9: The Michoud
Living Room
Scene 10: Stendhal’s
Apartment
Scene 11: Antoine’s
Bedroom
Scene 12: The Michoud
Living Room and Antoine’s Bedroom
Scene 13: Stendhal’s
Apartment
ACT II
Scene 1: Stendhal’s
Apartment
Scene 2: The Seminary
Scene 3: The Chapel
at the Seminary
Scene 4: Antoine’s
Room at the Seminary
Scene 5: A Village
Church
Scene 6: A Hotel
Cafe in Grenoble
Scene 7: A Courtroom
in Grenoble
Scene 8: Antoine’s
Prison Cell
Scene 9: The City
Square in Grenoble
Scene 10: Epilogue
Author’s Note
On the night of
October 25th, 1829, Marie-Henri Beyle, a French writer whose many pseudonyms
included "Stendhal" set about to write Le Rouge et Le Noir (The Red and
the Black), which he finished in only a few months. He had been inspired
by an article in La Gazette de Tribinaux, a popular courtroom newspaper,
about the trial of Antoine Berthet, a young seminarian from Grenoble.
France in 1829 was near the
end of the Bourbon Restoration, which had restored the monarchy after the
fall of Napoleon. The Catholic Church had great secular power at the time,
and Stendhal, among others, considered the Bourbon Charles X merely a puppet
of the Church. The July Revolution of 1830, which sent Charles X into exile
and restored parliamentary rule to France, occurred a few months before
Le Rouge et Le Noir was published.
Although Stendhal’s novel
caused a brief scandal because of its attack on French politics and morality,
it soon disappeared into obscurity, along with the rest of his work. Only
the dedicated efforts of a small group of his friends, including Mme. Jules
Gaulthier, kept his books in print. Finally, at the end of the nineteenth
century, Stendhal’s work, particularly Le Rouge et Le Noir, was recognized
as an important contribution to French literature and as a precursor to
the modern psychological novel.
hy*poc*ri*sy — a pretense
of having desirable or publicly approved attitudes, beliefs, etc. that
one does not actually possess.
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