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In CNY Playhouse’s ‘The Revolutionists,’ the jokes and heads keep on rolling (review)

“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, ...
Palo Alto Weekly

Four women try to reform a revolution and dodge the guillotine in ‘The Revolutionists’

Pictured, left to right, The assassin Charlotte Corday (Katherine Hamilton), the playwright Olympe de Gouges (Gabriella Goldstein) and the spy Marianne Angelle (Kimberly Ridgeway) search for just the ...
Washington City Paper

Terror Reigns and a Playwright Fights Back in The Revolutionists

Left to Right: Arika Thames (Marianne Angelle), Anna DiGiovanni (Olympe de Gouges), Fabiolla Da Silva (Marie-Antoinette), and Danielle Gallo (Charlotte Corday) in Prologue Theatre’s production of The ...
Radio France Internationale

Olympe(s) au théâtre, la tête, la langue et les poings

«La femme a le droit de monter sur l’échafaud ; elle doit avoir également celui de monter à la tribune», disait Olympe de Gouges. En 1793, elle fut à son tour guillotinée, notamment pour avoir osé ...