Gilbert Theater, the theater with a pulse, is living up to its reputation and community roots with its latest production, The Revolutionists by Laura Gunderson. A fictional tale set in the very real ...
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The year before Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, another writer, Olympe de Gouges, published a comparable call for equality during the turmoil of revolutionary France.
Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...
The Georgia Southern Theatre is bringing history, humor, and heart to the stage with The Revolutionists, a fierce and funny reimagining of the French Revolution, starring four actresses playing very ...
The Georgia Southern Theatre will present The Revolutionists by Georgia playwright, Lauren Gunderson, opening on October 15th and running through October 19th at the Center for Art and Theatre.
Synopsis: Locked up in her cell at the Conciergerie shortly before her trial, Olympe de Gouges confided in Fabien, her jailer, before being taken before the Revolutionary Tribunal presided over by ...
A golden statue of campaigning lawyer Gisèle Halimi now stands proudly in the northern Paris neighbourhood. Halimi, who was born in Tunisia and died five years ago at the age of 93, gained national ...
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 ...
A grand and dream-tweaked comedy about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. Playwright Olympe ...