The Revolutionists

by Laura Gunderson
Directed by Heather Schultz
Produced by Debra Miller
Stage Manager Kathy Hyland

Production Kickoff: Sep 14, 2025

Audition: Sep 21, 2025

Performance Dates

Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, & 20, 2025 at 8:00PM
Dec. 14 & 21, 2025 at 2:00PM

Unless specifically noted, all roles are open to all regardless of race or ethnicity.

  • These are strong, mature women.

  • Marie Antoinette – Queen of France prior to the French Revolution. Married at 14 and became queen at 18. She was falsely accused of treason and executed at 37.
  • Charlotte Corday – An assassin, she was an aristocrat raised in a covent after the death of her mother. She killed a political rival. Declaring she had killed him to save a hundred thousand others, she did not resist arrest and faced the scaffold with head held high, her execution taking place four days after the murder on July 17, 1793.
  • Olympe de Gouges – A French playwright, political activist, actress. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
  • Marianne Angelle – A Haitian rebel. Marianne Angelle represents the Black women who protested the institution of slavery in modern day Haiti, then the French colony Saint-Domingue. Yet she is not just an idealist - she is a mother and wife, and her love of her family pushes her to change the world for the better.

Four women - a writer, an assassin, a queen and a rebel - are caught in the political upheaval of Paris, 1793. French feminism and revolutionary fervor collide in this imagination-fueled, female-powered comedy. Is it possible to hold onto your ideals, even as you lose your head?

Heather Schultz has been involved with performing arts for over 40 years in various capacities. She has a Master's Degree in Organizational Management with a specialization in Organizational Leadership and has taught dancing and acting for many years.

Hailing most recently from Southeastern Georgia, she was a founding member and served as the Executive/Artistic Director for C.A.P.E. Theater in Brunswick for over a decade. She was awarded Volunteer of the Year in 2012 from the Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association for her work promoting local arts.

Since her move to Ohio, Heather has continued her involvement in local performing arts with several local theatre companies. In 2017, she directed Five Women Wearing the Same Dress for Curtain Players, which received eleven recognitions at the 2017 Ohio Community Theatre Association Regional Conference - including an Excellence in Direction for Schultz - and was awarded six recognitions at the 2017 OCTA State Conference.

Heather is the Immediate Past Board President for Curtain Players and currently serves as the Outreach Coordinator for the organization.

When

  • Production Kickoff: Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 6:30 pm
  • Audition: Sun, Sep 21, 2025

Where

Script review, auditions, and performances take place at:
Curtain Players Theatre
5691 Harlem Road, Galena, OH 43021

Curtain Players offers an information session for each of its productions as a help for actors seeking roles, but attendance is not required to audition. The event is an opportunity for actors to become acquainted with the community theatre organization, to discuss the play with the director, and to ask questions about the audition process, rehearsal period, and production plans. Those interested in working behind the scenes are also invited to attend.

Curtain Players conducts open auditions for its productions. Roles are not cast in advance, and, unless specified otherwise in the role's description, are open to all without regard to race or ethnicity. Casting decisions are made by the director and a casting committee comprised of a member of the theatre board, a general member of the organization, and individuals of the director's choosing.

Auditions will be held with readings from selected scenes from the script. No monologues are necessary.

Anyone interested in auditioning is invited and encouraged to attend the Production Kickoff Meeting for more valuable audition information.

Requests for an early audition for The Revolutionists must be made no later than September 07, 2025.

Questions related to the audition process may be directed to production@curtainplayers.org.


Rehearsals will be held on Sunday evenings, Monday evenings and Wednesday evening for most of the rehearsal process until tech week. We will also include some Tuesday evenings. Not all cast members will be required to attend every rehearsal, so there is some room to work around conflicts. This schedule is designed to allow the actors to have personal time for line memorization, character work, and blocking rehearsal. Sundays will be the most focused and lengthy rehearsal, but no rehearsal will run past 9pm at the very latest. (All rules are off for tech week.)
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