Living Image Arts inaugurated our 5th Anniversary Theatrical Season with the world premier of Emilie's Voltaire by acclaimed playwright Arthur Giron at the Beckett Theatre January of '09. 

Here's what they said...

“Arthur Giron’s words are what actors long to wrap their voices around.”

-The New York Examiner

"The intellectual, emotional and sexual sparks fly in Arthur Giron’s unusual and fascinating play, “Emilie’s Voltaire,” a presentation of the Living Image Arts Theater Company. ” -critic, William Wolf

"A beautiful pas de deux of dialogue, eloquently performed” -MusicOMH

"A great story and well worth seeing... Arthur Giron’s Emilie’s Voltaire (is) far from the same old fare one can see night after night. It is rare indeed that one gets to see a play by a contemporary playwright which examines the past, in this case the notorious love affair between Voltaire and the Marquise de Chatelet which scandalized all of Europe... a tragic ending, but what a story it is!" - Smith & Kraus

"What happens when the minds of two seekers of knowledge, one a challenger of life and the other a hedonistic rule breaker, meet? The result is a tumultuous, fascinating 16-year love affair that is wonderfully portrayed in Arthur Giron’s EMILIE’S VOLTAIRE... The captivating “EMILIE’S VOLTAIRE” is an inside look at genius and the underlying emotions that feed it. Definitely a bit of history you’re pleased to discover.” -Off BroadWay

"AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART AND MIND - Arthur Giron’s new play, Emilie’s Voltaire uses the 16-year affair of the French genius and his lover, Emilie, to explore the transformative power of intellectual and sexual passions and the constraining effect of class and gender on them... Ironically, it is Voltaire’s passion for her, not his knowledge, that reduces him from master of the relationship to her captive. Ironically, it is Emilie’s body, not her mind, that in the end betrays her... The play touches on the nature of passion, the repressive effects of society, the odd contradictions of genius, the use of sex as a weapon in relationships, the place of the characters in history, the elucidation of the mindset of that period in history, and more... Giron skillfully brings the audience to understand the infant state of scientific method in the 18th century and the intoxicating wonder, to those of open and able minds, that science offered. To them, it was a gift from God, helping them better understand things eternal by studying things temporal...There is plenty of sexual tension, but this show is far more about passion – both physical and intellectual – than sex." -about.com (brought to you by the NYTimes)