May Rough Reading
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Tracy Ward
Performed by Jessica Lynn Carroll*, Kat Zdan*, Marilee Talkington*, & Dawn L. Troupe-Masi*
* Member of Actors' Equity Association
About the Play
A brutal comedic quartet 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 hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793’s Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, feminism and terrorism, art and theatre and how we actually go about changing the world.