Christopher will host an invited reading of Alfred de Vigny's 1834 play CHATTERTON — one of the great all-but-forgotten works of the 19th century theater.

De Vigny's telling of the tale of the poet Thomas Chatterton — art, commerce, passion, despair, sacrifice, opium and the sleepless soul!

A huge success when it premiered, the play created a critical debate similar to that of Corneille's LE CID 200 years earlier. Melodrama reaching to level of Tragedy! How dare de Vigny do such a thing?

"It is the story of a man who has written a letter in the morning and who waits for the answer in the evening; the answer comes, and it kills him!"