The Revolutionists
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Saturday, Jan 27, 2024 7pm
- Saturday, Jan 27, 2024 2pm
- Friday, Jan 26, 2024 7pm
Location
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre
888 Morro Street
Details
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
