THE REVOLUTIONISTS at Adobe Theater

The Revolutionists, a story of wit, beauty, and strength, is based on four powerful badass women who took on the French Revolution during its Reign of Terror, 1793. Even though the four women never actually met, they were real and their stories were real. Lauren Gunderson (currently one of the most produced playwrights in the country) intertwines their stories into an accumulative voice that shouts for freedom and rights for all women, something that surely resonates in today’s world. She has expertly woven their causes together using modern dialogue and comedy to capture and seduce us into their reality. The four women, Olympe de Gouges (a playwright) Charlotte Corday (an assassin), Maria Antoinette (former queen), and Marianne Angelle (a rebel), all met similar ends at the guillotine in 1793.