Event

09/02/2011 - 09/17/2011

A Paper Garden: An idiosyncratic and indefatigable account of Empress Josephine’s and André Michaux’s love of botany

A play by Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen and Genevieve Perrier for the APS Museum
(All day)

Performance Dates and Times
Fri. Sept. 2 — noon & 6pm (6pm performance is followed by a discussion between Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen and Genevieve Perrier)
Sat. Sept. 3 — 1 and 3pm
Sun. Sept. 4 — 1 and 3pm
Fri. Sept. 9 — noon & 6pm
Sat. Sept. 10 — 1 and 3pm
Sun. Sept. 11 — 1 and 3pm
Fri. Sept. 16 — noon & 6pm
Sat. Sept. 17 — 1 and 3pm

 

FREE TICKETS REQUIRED <----TICKETS LINK

Presented in the APS’s Jefferson Garden (on the east side of 5th Street between Chestnut and Walnut Streets).

 

A Paper Garden is part of the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

At the turn of the 19th Century, an exotic plant sprouts from an unusual box sent across the Atlantic Ocean by famous world explorer, raconteur, and botanist André Michaux to Empress Josephine’s French estate. What blooms is a story full of tall tales, love songs, and one unique French garden.