Auditions
The Revolutionists
Audition Dates: January 4, 10AM - 12PM and 4-10PM, January 5, 10AM-3PM
Location: Playcrafters of Skippack
2011 Store Road, Skippack, PA 19474.
Performance Dates: April 25 through May 10
In Paris, 1793, four women work together (sort of) to try and expand the French Revolution to include equality for women and black slaves. Needless to say, the slave-owning men running the revolutionary government are not exactly receptive, and the women must wrestle with their roles in the revolution and what it will cost them - in the Reign of Terror, probably their heads. Character breakdowns below.
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Olympe de Gouges (38)
Badass activist playwright and feminist. Author of "The Declaration of the Rights of Women," one of the very first feminist manifestos. Theater nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman. Widowed and never remarried to ensure her personal freedom.
Marianne Angelle (30s)
A badass black woman in Paris. The only character who is not an historical figure. She is from the Caribbean (no accent required), a free woman, a spy working with her husband Vincent. Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of the four.
Marie-Antoinette (38)
Less badass but fascinating former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend.
Charlotte Corday (25)
Badass country girl and assassin. The assassin of extremist revolutionary figure Jean Paul Marat. Very serious, hardened by righteousness, never been kissed.