Through the Eyes: A Play for One Actor

David E. Kemp, a former professor of drama at Queen’s University, is
the author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

Don Druick is an internationally produced playwright whose previous
works include the award-winning play Where Is Kabuki? and the hit CBC
Radio series Recipe for Murder.

Set in Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King), Through
the Eyes is the story of the great Italian sculptor Granlorenzo
Bernini’s visit to France in 1665. Commissioned to carve a bust of the
king, Bernini finds himself in an opulent but dangerous world—a world
filled with tyranny, cruelty, intrigue, passion, and violence. All of
this is portrayed with remarkable clarity, as is the clash of egos
between the king and the artist.

Through the Eyes is a play for one actor performing 11 different roles,
three of them women. This reviewer saw a production of the play anchored
by a superb performance by Richard McMillan. It is good to know that the
text reads as wonderfully as it plays.