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Adelaide Dequindre

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Matriarch, et al

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to Grace's bio

Catherine Campau

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to Mandy's bio

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Asst. Director/Stage Manager

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Who is Hustling

Moliere's Tartuffe

The head of a prosperous family, has taken in and been taken in by Tartuffe, a man who purports to be holy, but is really a fraud. Campau and his mother are the only ones to have fallen under the trickster's spell – the rest of the relatives, including his wife and nephew, see right through Tartuffe.

Tartuffe

As a result of Molière's play, contemporary French and English both use the word "tartuffe" to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue.

Adelaide Dequindre Campau

Adelaide Dequindre was the daughter of Antoine Ponchartrain Dequindre and Catherine (Desriviere) Lemoinodiere. Adelaide was a woman of refinement, dignity, fashion, and faith, in whose hands a bible is prominently displayed.

Catherine Menard

Catherine Menard is Joseph Campau's mother and also a sucker for Tartuffe.

Joseph Campau

Joseph Campau (February 2, 1769–July 23, 1863) was among Detroit, Michigan's leading citizens and wealthiest landowners.
Campau was a Roman Catholic until he was excommunicated for selling whiskey to Native Americans and having joined the Masons

Marie (Campau) Williams

Like her brother Joseph, Marie Cecilia (Campau) Williams had a falling out with the Catholic church. She married Thomas Williams in Albany New York. Williams was not Catholic and they were not married in a Catholic church. Their children included John R.

Palms Postscript

Catherine and Francis Palms separated in 1862 and she moved to Montreal with their daughter.

Moliere's Tartuffe

Moliere's Tartuffe was first performed in France in 1664. It was almost immediately censored by King Louis XIV.

Moliere's Tartuffe

Campau tells his daughter Catherine that she will be marrying Tartuffe instead of Palms, her longtime fiancé.

John R.

John R. Williams was the first Mayor of Detroit and also imprisoned in Montreal for 6 months after shooting a man in a duel.

Moliere's Tartuffe

Tartuffe attempts to seduce Campau's wife, Adelaide Dequindre. She shuts him down, then makes a deal with him.

Moliere's Tartuffe

John R. decides to tell Campau what's happened, Campau refuses to believe him – and disinherits him instead. Tartuffe is made the sole heir to Campau's fortune.

Moliere's Tartuffe

After being discovered and thrown out of the house, Tartuffe vows to get back at Campau. He leaves quickly. Campau realizes he's in quite a pickle. He's already signed over all his possessions to Tartuffe, and, to top it all off, the swindler has run off with some incriminating documents.

Francis Palms

Francis Frederick Palms was born in born in Antwerp, Belgium December 13, 1809. Federick and his parents and his siblings relocated to Detroit in 1833, He spent the majority of his early years working for Campau, Francis Married his second wife Catherine Campau, daughter of Joseph.
He ultimately surpassed his father-in-law by becoming the largest landowner in all of Michigan and built a beautiful Italianate residence at 357/651 E Jefferson Ave.

Simon Girty

Simon Girty was a notorious frontiersman, reviled as a British supporter

Union of DeQuindre & Campau

Campau was married to Adelaide Dequindre on May 18, 1808. They had eight children.

Campau

Joseph Campau and his nephew John R. went into business together, started newspapers, one of which became the Detroit Free Press

Louis Groesbeck

Sent by Governor Cass, officer Louis Groesbeck arrives to arrest...spoiler alert!

Mandy's Inspiration

It all started for me with the WDET story on CuriosiD about John R the road. Everything just fell into place. It wasn't forced, it was honestly just luck, or in my belief system divine spark/creation. Higher Power stuff, gift from God...Girty was my favorite find though. Mostly because I love a good character and when I read that little blurb the stuff that popped into my head just made me laugh.

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Cast and Crew

Non-Profit

Slipstream has always been a 501(C)3. As such your donations are tax deductible as allowed by law!

The Community

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THANK YOU DONORS

Season Donors

Harriet Shakir

Jay Smith

Andy and Stacy Doctoroff

Tim Donal

Ned and Elisa Greenberg

Adobe Systems

Ticket Round Uppers

Thank you to everyone who rounds up on their ticket purchase! There are too many to list here and we are grateful for you all!

Board Donors

Luna Alexander

Bailey Boudreau

Cindi Brody

Ryan Ernst

Maya Gangadharan

Jay and Jennifer Jolliffe

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