Show Plot Is He Dead?

Authors: Mark Twain (1898), adapted by David Ives (2007)

Time Period: 1846 (mid-19th century, during the reign of the King of France)

Setting: In and around Paris and the artist community of Barbizon, France

Summary: A three-act comedy that follows a struggling French painter who fakes his death and cross-dresses as his own imaginary twin sister to achieve fame and pay off a villainous art dealer.