The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Proposed by director Leigh Matthews Bock
Play Synopsis
The Revolutionists is a new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent hypocritical male rhetoric. However will modern audiences relate?
This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.
Vision Statement
To truly honor Lauren Gunderson's play and hold to it being a - Feisty Feminist Comedy.
Currently, Lauren Gunderson, is the second most-produced playwright, and the most-produced living playwright living in America. Lauren's work is good and people want to experience it. We are currently in the fourth-wave feminism movement and Lauren's comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. The Revolutionists is a play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent hypocritical male rhetoric.
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