Performance: ‘The Revolutionists’

In celebration of EmersonTogether, and in collaboration with members of the Performing Arts community including faculty, staff, alums, and students, Emerson Stage Artistic Director Kate Cherry directs The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson.

The Revolutionists is a new 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 1793 Paris. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent male rhetoric.

The Revolutionists explores feminism and terrorism, compatriots, and chosen sisters, and asks if a lasting legacy can be created through violence. Perhaps, we need a comedy to create a revolution that will last?

The production is 1 hour 30 minutes long, without intermission, and will be followed by 20-minute talkback. Admission is first-come, first-served.