THE REVOLUTIONISTS presented by Gnarly Bard Theater Company

Join Gnarly Bard Theater Company for the 3rd show of our 2025/2026 season with THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson.

The Revolutionists is a 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, loose 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?

This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. 

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. 

Cast & Crew

Alyssa Fraser as Olympe De Gouge

Izzy Maxwell as Marianne Angelle

Stephanie Netko as Marie Antoinette

Mara St. Pierre as Charlotte Corday

Director - Mike Mellas*

Stage Manager - Sandi Kroll

Set Designer/Master Carpenter - Anthony Schrock

Costume Designer - Lindsey Hall

Lighting Designer - Tom Imholte*

*Denotes Company Member

***When selecting your seats, please don't leave one single seat between yourself and the next reserved seats. We reserve the right to move seat locations so single seats aren't left alone.