The Revolutionists

The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson

The Revolutionists is a 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.
 
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. 

It’s a true story. 
Or total fiction. 
Or a play about a play. 
Or a raucous resurrection. . .
that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Tickets will be held at Will Call at the Center for Art and Theatre Box Office. Please pick up tickets by 7:25pm. If we are sold out, tickets will be released at 7:25pm to be resold. No refunds for no shows. If the show is canceled, tickets will be refunded or exchanged for another performance.