In times of duress, theatre can be many things - cathartic, comforting, inspiring - and the very timely production of The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson (the most produced contemporary playwright ...
Theatrical Outfit is concluding its 49th Season with the return of Lauren Gunderson’s THE REVOLUTIONISTS. Check out all new ...
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 ...
A giant guillotine. An assassination plot. Comedy, companionship and sorrow. “The Revolutionists” had it all. The two-act play written by Lauren Gunderson ran last weekend at the Hal & Martha Hyer ...
Four French women walk into a dream fugue. Is this the setup for a joke? Perhaps it is — somewhere, sometime — but in The Revolutionists, a play by Lauren Gunderson, it is mainly conceptual. There is ...
There is nothing like being in on the joke, and in The Revolutionists, many of the jokes are about how an audience experiences a play. To laugh during Lost Nation Theater‘s sprightly production is to ...
What if the cry of the French Revolution were edited to include one more word – “Liberté!" "Égalité!" "Fraternité!” and — gasp! — “Sororité ...
Great ideas do not always translate into great theater. A case in point is “The Revolutionists,” a work filled with profound thoughts playing at Schenectady Civic Players through Sunday. The play, ...
Would you be surprised if you were told that the most produced playwright in America is Lauren Gunderson? Who? One of her best works is Silent Sky, a dreamy homage to astronomer Henrietta Levitt, who ...
With Madam Guillotine literally hanging above her desk, playwright Olympe de Gouges, 18th century France’s only feminist playwright, toils over her next script. In “The Revolutionists,” now on stage ...
The opening moments of Strawdog Theatre’s “The Revolutionists” feel like they might be perfectly at home at Trap Door. Four women, garbed in deconstructed variants of 18th century garb, stand in ...