Violet Surprise Theatre, under the leadership of Iris Sowlat and Allison Fradkin, is presenting The Revolutionists by Lauren ...
Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political and economic equality of both genders. It advocates for the removal of gender based barriers and developing women’s rights. Up until the late ...
“Women wearing pants was so scandalous in certain eras that they required a legal permit to do so,” says Emily Neville. “It’s true; it’s absurd; by today’s standards, it’s hilarious.” Pants permits ...
One of the first noises you’ll hear in Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is the slam of a guillotine. No surprises there for a play about the French Revolution, except that playwright Olympe de ...
Set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, the play follows four historical figures — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Marie Antoinette, and Haitian revolutionary ...
“We are addressing these really huge questions about revolution and violence and about bravery and courage,” said Carolyn Wright, co-director of “The Revolutionists, which opens Feb. 6 at the Maui ...
Anne Hultzsch, your research topic is rather unknown. How did you come up with it? The idea came partly from my teaching experience and a certain frustration with the canon of architectural literature ...
ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of women in shaping discourses of gender equality during the French Revolution (1789-1794), situating their activism within the intellectual framework of the ...
Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...
The year before Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, another writer, Olympe de Gouges, published a comparable call for equality during the turmoil of revolutionary France.
In 1793, after the execution of Louis XVI, the basilica of Saint-Denis was the scene of a violent damnatio memoriae, culminating in October of that year: revolutionaries opened the tombs of French ...
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