A group of historians, writers and elected officials demand the transfer of the remains to the Paris Pantheon of Olympe de Gouges, a pioneer in the fight for the abolition of slavery and women's ...

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 ...

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 ...

as the French themselves were massacring one another in the name of liberté, egalité, and fraternité. In the play, all three women connect through Olympe de Gouges, whom you Through 7/8: Wed-Fri 7:30 ...

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 ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...

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 ...

One of the first noises you’ll hear in Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is the slam of a guillotine. No surprises there ...