“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...
She supported the abolition of slavery, fought for equality between men and women, campaigned for the right of free union and divorce, and defended democracy ...
Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...
She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...
It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle and Queen Marie Antoinette — find themselves holed up ...