The Revolutionists - Czech Premiere

The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Andrew Ruthven

Starring Bree Welch, Shannon Emerick, Jessica Boone and Callina Situka

It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection… that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Prague Shakespeare Company is excited to present the Czech Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s explosive and brutal comedy. The Revolutionists is a whirling fantasia of a tale about four fiery, renegade women whose lives collide during the French Revolution. At the height of the Reign of Terror, playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, activist Marianne Angelle, and former queen Marie Antoinette plot murder, try to beat back extremist insanity in Paris, and explore how we actually go about changing the world in this irreverent, brutal comedy.

THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY!

Divadlo Na Prádle November 21 & 23 at 19h, November 22 at 10h

General admission: 350kc Student, seniors & handicapped: 250kc

TICKETS

November 21: https://goout.net/en/tickets/the-revolutionists/mxpb/

November 22: https://goout.net/en/tickets/the-revolutionists/pxpb/

November 23: https://goout.net/en/tickets/the-revolutionists/qxpb/

LAUREN GUNDERSON is the 2016 winner of the Lanford Wilson Award, the 2014 winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play award and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for I and You. She is also one of the most produced playwrights in America (American Theatre Magazine, 2015). She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), The O’Neill, Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva and more. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, and Toil And Trouble) and Samuel French (Emilie). She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, GA and lives in San Francisco. LaurenGunderson.com and @LalaTellsAStory.