Winning ROMANCE Festival Best Scene Reading: HELOISE + ABELARD, by Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough

Based on a true story. Heloise d’ Argenteuil (15, a brilliant young scholar) has a forbidden love affair with her tutor, the popular Professor Peter Abelard (35). Their love is against the searing backdrop of political and religious turmoil and costs the lovers everything they have. Today their love story has changed feminist theories, French literature, and the myth of the love story for all time.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Nicole/Sister Catherine: Hannah Ehman
Jacques: Steve Rizzo
Heloise: Kyana Teresa

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