“We are addressing these really huge questions about revolution and violence and about bravery and courage,” said Carolyn Wright, co-director of “The Revolutionists, which opens Feb. 6 at the Maui ...

Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the ...

Anne Hultzsch, your research topic is rather unknown. How did you come up with it? The idea came partly from my teaching experience and a certain frustration with the canon of architectural literature ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of women in shaping discourses of gender equality during the French Revolution (1789-1794), situating their activism within the intellectual framework of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On a rainy Thursday evening in downtown Athens, the Morton Theatre hosted the ...

Olympe de Gouges pursued her literary career with new publications: plays, novels and essays. She confirmed her commitment to denouncing slavery by publishing her Réflexions sur les hommes nègres ...

“This is not the way to start a comedy,” quips 18th-century playwright Olympe de Gouges, staring at the guillotine looming upstage. Or is it? In “The Revolutionists,” now onstage at CNY Playhouse, ...

“It’s really funny to see Olympe De Gouge freak out and be a drama queen, and Marie Antoinette be the dumb blonde airhead pretty girl,” Cox, a freshman at Brown College, said. While the set itself was ...