Vivid Stage Summer Solos: "Equally Divine"

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 @ 6:30pm

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901

Bring a comfy lawn chair and your favorite snack to enjoy a summer eve with us. 

(Rain/Extreme Heat Location: Oakes Center)

"Equally Divine" by Jenny Lyn Bader

Told from the point of view of the world's most famous painting, this true-crime whodunit begins with the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Police question everyone from J.P Morgan to Pablo Picasso but cannot crack the case. Soon the story travels back in time to 1503, introducing us to the visionary artist Leonardo da Vinci, the apprentice who would become his lover, and the secrets behind the creation of La Gioconda. Along the way, the woman in the portrait solves mysteries that have baffled fans and stumped scholars for centuries: Why Leonardo never delivered the painting to the man who commissioned it. Who she is. And why she's smiling. Equally Divine is a time-hopping, gender-bending drama about art, inspiration, and becoming who we are.