This series highlights one of Guillaume Lethière’s compatriots of Caribbean descent, famed author and playwright Alexandre Dumas. Dumas’s many books (including The Three Musketeers) have been captured on film dozens of times. His father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a revered French general and close friend of Lethière, inspired many of his swashbuckling characters.

La Reine Margot (directed by Patrice Chéreau, 1994) based on the novel of the same name, is one of the most celebrated, winning five Césars, the French Oscar, and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Danièle Thompson’s lively adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel is a model of heaving, combustible historical storytelling. There’s no more entertaining introduction to the sixteenth-century French wars of religion. (Run time: 2 hours, 42 minutes)

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.



Image: La Reine Margot, Patrice Chéreau, 1994