The Lady of the Camellias

Lower Manhattan’s Shakespeare Downtown presents a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas fils' The Lady of the Camellias. Adapted by Billie Andersson, The Lady of the Camellias combines dialogue from Dumas’ novel with text and structural concepts from the libretto of the opera La Traviata. Adapted by Billie Andersson, The Lady of the Camellias tells the tragic love story between Marguerite Gautier, a courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Combining dialogue from Dumas’ novel with text and structural concepts from La Traviata, and performed inside the open-air walls of Castle Clinton.