Angélique is a Canadian play by Lorena Gale inspired by the executed slave Marie-Joseph Angelique.
A work-in-progress version of Angélique was presented on January 29, 1995 as a staged reading at Women in View Festival in Vancouver.
[2] The play is a fictionalized accounted of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave who was executed in 1734 in Montreal, then part of New France, for arson.
[3] The play begins as a young female slave arrives in Montreal from Madiere, Portugal.
On their journey to America, Claude abandons Angèlique, who is later apprehended on suspicion of starting the fire.
[13] Two years later, this production toured Ontario including at Factory Theatre[14] and the National Arts Centre.