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October 13, 2006|Volume 35, Number 6


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Play reading and talk will explore the
romantic life of Benjamin Franklin

Yale will continue its celebration of the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin with a presentation of an original play, "Franklin in Love," on Friday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St.

The program, which will include introductory talks by two Franklin scholars, is free and open to the public.

"Franklin in Love," by Patrick Huguenin '06 B.A., is based on the book "Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris" by Claude-Anne Lopez, a special consultant for "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin" publishing project at Yale and senior research scholar in the Department of History.

The book, which covers Franklin's years in Paris and the friendships and romantic relationships he enjoyed there, is drawn from letters written to and from Franklin that are housed in the Benjamin Franklin Collection in Sterling Memorial Library.

The play will be presented as a rehearsed reading, with actors in period costumes designed by Long Wharf Theatre's Valerie Webster. Frank Alberino, also of Long Wharf, is the set designer. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Yale student Jacob First at the piano. The cast includes two professional actors, Sarah Peterson as Mme Helvetius and Henry Strozier as Franklin, and two undergraduate theater studies majors, Carly Zien as Mme Brillon and Paul Spera as Franklin's illegitimate grandson Temple. The production is directed by Toni Dorfman, associate professor of theater studies.

The program will include a talk on "Franklin in France" by historian Ellen Cohn, editor-in-chief of the "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin." Lopez, the author of several books on the founding father, will speak about "The Birth of 'Mon Cher Papa.'"

The event is co-sponsored by Gary Haller, master of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center.


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