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During a tea party, Marie Antoinette ? wearing a Cyndi Lauper-inspired tulle dress, blue wig and strings of pearls ? complains that she feels trapped in the Palace of Versailles. The French queen, who was married at age 14 to Louis XVI, takes a bite of expensive chocolate and sighs, saying she?s misunderstood by the public, in The NOLA Project?s production of Marie Antoinette at NOCCA?s Nims Black Box Theatre.

Written by David Adjmi, the show chronicles the years after Louis XVI (A.J. Allegra) ascends to the throne, which makes Austrian-born Marie (Cecile Monteyne) the Queen of France.?