The Revolutionists

Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy (Troupe 7940)

 

Presents:​​

A Comedy

A Quartet

A Revolutionary Dream Fugue

A True Story

By Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Jason Applegate

 

About the play

This is a play about four women fighting for equal rights for all races and genders during the Reign of Terror in France, 1792. It's a (somewhat dark, somewhat absurd) comedy. It's expressionist. It's feminist. It’s not a musical. No, the only barricade in this show is the overbearing construct of the patriarchy. If you are a woman or have an important woman in your life, this show should hit you in the feels. It will make you laugh and maybe even cry. It might even make you angry. But please listen to Marianne’s wonderful line: “Let us be kind, shall we…let us laugh too loudly and too often, and call out the hypocrites of our age until they are the butt of the joke.” Let’s not add to the pain, hatred, and violence in this world. Let’s not have another reign of terror. Let’s laugh and love.

 

This play does include some PG-13 language. The language was not censored because it is essential to the themes of misogyny and injustice.