The Revolutionists

AUDITION DATE: Sunday January 22

Seven or eight week contract TBD — Equity and non-Equity actors welcome to audition

Rehearsal: April 11 or 18 (TBD) - May 09, 2023; 30 hrs/wk TBD

Performances: May 10 - June 04, 2023

All positions paid weekly

ITP may be able to provide housing — if not local to Asheville, please indicate in submission

Show Description

A comedy about art, feminism, and the guillotine. At the height of the Reign of Terror in France circa 1793, a playwright, a spy, an assassin, and a queen find themselves bound by unexpected sororité and certain death. A grand and dream-tweaked comedy about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.

Cast

Olympe de Gouges (38): Badass activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman. Widowed and never remarried to ensure her personal freedom.

Marianne Angelle (30s): Badass Black woman in Paris. She is from the Caribbean, a free woman, a spy working with her husband, Vincent. Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all.

Charlotte Corday (25): Badass country girl and assassin. Very serious, hardened by righteousness, never been kissed. Has a pocket watch she keeps checking. Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask.

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. Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask.