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Digital program:
The Revolutionists Program |
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Synopsis:
Paris. 1793. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, experience the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. The women move ever closer to their own undeniable fates, while still trying to change their world, as they extol (and sometimes castigate) violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters.
Paris. 1793. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, experience the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. The women move ever closer to their own undeniable fates, while still trying to change their world, as they extol (and sometimes castigate) violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters.
Photography by: DJ Corey Photography
Cast
Anna DiGiovanni as Olympe de Gouges
Arika Thames as Marianne Angelle
Danielle Gallo as Charlotte Corday
Fabiolla Da Silva as Marie Antoinette
Arika Thames as Marianne Angelle
Danielle Gallo as Charlotte Corday
Fabiolla Da Silva as Marie Antoinette
Photos: Michael Haller Photography (Anna), D J Corey Photography (Arika, Danielle), Clinton B Photography (Fabiolla)
Production team
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Jessica Lefkow
Director Alison Samantha Johnson Costume Design Jen Katz Stage Manager |
Matthew J. Keenan
Scenic Design Domino Mannheim Lighting Design Gordon Nimmo-Smith Sound Design |
about the playwright
Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and her play The Half-Life of Marie Curie is available on Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/Amazon. She is currently developing musicals with Ari Afsar, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone. LaurenGunderson.com