Abelard and Heloise

Large Mixed Cast Male, 9 Female

Ronald Millar Price: $14.95

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One of the greatest love stories of all time, this play was inspired by Helen Waddell’s Peter Abelard and the letters of the 12th century lovers: a monastic scholar and poet and the innocent girl who came to adore him

Abelard loses his heart and his reason to Heloise, has a child by her and, in violation of his vows, enters into a secret marriage. Heloise’s vengeful uncle alerts the ecclesiastical authorities

The lovers are separated and Abelard is castrated. She enters a nunnery and he a monastery. They meet again years later when he turns over to her, as abbess, a community he founded at their parting

“Will please people who like tragedy with their love and wit with their history ~ N.Y. Times

“[This] story of the most famous star crossed lovers outside of Romeo and Juliet ... is intelligently written, striking” ~ N.Y. Post