The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

Shadow Theatre will present THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson from March 18 through April 5, 2026 at the Varscona ...

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 ...

That rallying cry, perhaps the best-known slogan of the French Revolution, was incomplete in that it omitted a key component: sororité. That point is made by the four characters in “The Revolutionists ...

Charlotte Northeast in Theatre Horizon's production of "The Revolutionists." (Photo courtesy of Alex Medvick) “The Revolutionists,” about four women who insist on playing roles in the French ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons, many have ...

Revolutionary figures Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat and others all make appearances in France's school curriculum in fourth, eighth and 11 th grade. While there are plenty of ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...