The program of the work El collar de la reina says that “the main ingredients of the conspiracy that had Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI as the great victims were the most valuable necklace of all time, a fake countess, some defrauded jewellers, a plumed cardinal and a party ending with national scandal included”.
Taking into account what happened to the kings later, when they ran into the guillotine, Ricard Farré and Arnau Puig, authors of the piece, consider that this real and royal episode, which is so surreal at times unbelievable, is one of the sparks that ignited the French Revolution.
On the stage of the Akademia theatre, only two performers multiply to represent eleven characters. The Queen’s Necklace is “a comedy that begins with vaudeville airs, becomes entangled like a demonic thriller and ends as a drama of historical consequences”, declare the authors.
King Louis XV ordered a necklace with a very expensive diamond to give to one of his mistresses, but he died two days before he could deliver it to her. His successor, Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette find a jewel they don’t want, but which will bring them many headaches.
The background of The Queen’s Collar is a constant of the world we have come to live in: some work to exhaustion to get breadcrumbs, while others swim in ostentatious opulence, with no spare display their riches.
