Revolution is coming! Rooftop Theatre Collaborative makes their New York City debut with The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, by special arrangement from Dramatist Play Service. After a period of hibernation, RTC, originally a New Jersey-based company, brings revolution to Brooklyn with an interpretation of The Revolutionists that is of our time and for our time, with an edge and a hint of darkness.
Heads will roll in this provocative interpretation of Gunderson’s revolutionary tale that blends our time with the French Revolution, encouraging us all to speak up and act out. At the peak of the French Revolution, writer Olympe de Gouges brings together three other female revolutionaries, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle, French assassin Charlotte Corday and Queen Marie Antoinette, to explore a woman’s place in revolution and if the pen is truly mightier than the sword. With a threat of the guillotine looming above their heads, the stakes are high to determine what power women wield during times of strife and revolution, a parallel to 2024 that does not go unacknowledged. Witness our writer, spy, assassin and queen as they go on a comedic romp about sisterhood and death that is as timeless as revolution itself.
