by Derek Kartun
with Emily Richard as Marie Duplessis, Simon Shepherd as Alexandre Dumas the Younger and Frances Jeater as Madame Doche (Marguerite Gautier), Brett Usher as Monsieur Fechter (Armand Duval)

In 1851 at the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris, Alexandre Dumas begins rehearsals for his latest play The Lady of the Camellias, based on his affair with Marie Duplessis, and so we get a fascinating study of how art may, or may not, mirror reality.

(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)