The Revolutionists tells the story of four female figures of the French Revolution. It runs at the Persephone Theatre from April 6\u002D30.
She sits at her desk trying to pen a play that captures the current moment, that has the potential to incite action and provoke people in the midst of France’s revolution. Little does she know, she’s already in one.
“Putting them in an imagined space together to talk about the realities of their lived experience, in the context of that revolution, it really illuminates a lot of their hopes and dreams and angst and frustration,” Revolutionists director and Persephone Theatre Artistic Director Heather Cant said. “And in a way that really resonates with a contemporary audience.”While art becomes a concrete remainder and a mouthpiece for history, it’s worth examining whose voices aren’t being heard, she noted.
That’s especially true of the character of Marianne Angelle, a composite character representing abolitionists during the Haitian Revolution, an insurrection against French colonial rule in what was then known as Saint-Domingue.
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