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Page to Stage is a book club for scripts and plays!
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Read the script, watch the play, and join our group discussion!
Following the performance at Prospect Theater Project, we’ll be meeting in the Artist Lab.
Location: 1218 K Street Modesto, CA
Time: After the Sunday matinee
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THE REVOLUTIONISTS
Written by Lauren Gunderson
Welcome back, script-reading enthusiasts!
We’ve missed you. The next play in the season, suitably in rehearsals on International Women’s Day, is The Revolutionists, by Lauren Gunderson.
Lauren Gunderson is an incredibly prolific and very popular playwright, frequently topping “most-produced plays” annual lists, including here at Prospect, where we ran The Taming as a Play Reading Project feature in May 2019, and the fully staged Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly the next season. I like her wit and her expansive palette of ideas. She describes this play:
The Revolutionists is a new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent hypocritical male rhetoric.
However will modern audiences relate.
https://www.laurengunderson.
At its core, Olympe De Gouge, playwright and author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, tries to write a new play — a comedy! — for her time, the still unfinished play titled La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détroné (“France Preserved, or The Tyrant Dethroned”). It would not end well. But it’s a comedy!
Filled with big ideas, centered on the labor of women to fashion a just society for all, wearing all of its emotions on a smartly tailored sleeve, The Revolutionists will spark a lot of conversation! I’m looking forward to it and I hope you can join us.
The play is directed by Laura Dickinson-Turner, fresh off her triumphant turn in Skylight, and features four powerful local actors: Seska Marie Williams, Leiyah Russell, Alice Zuzich, and Iris Garcia. Don’t miss it!
The Revolutionists opens March 21. Page to Stage will start shortly after curtain call on Sunday, March 30.
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Prospect Theater Project Page to Stage Season 2024-25
Lucas Hnath, The Thin Place (2021) opens 9/20, discussion 9/29
Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, The Shark Is Broken (2019) opens 11/15, discussion 11/24
David Hare, Skylight (1995) opens 1/31 discussion 2/9
Lauren Gunderson, The Revolutionists (2018) opens 3/21 discussion 3/30
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother (1932) opens 6/13 discussion 6/22
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