More Questions than Answers as Shakespeare in the Park Takes on The Revolutionists

The Cast of The Revolutionists, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park.
Photography by April Porterfield

Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists, presented by Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, offers a confusing and odd spin on historical events. It lumps four real women of the French Revolution together in a single room, as if they’ve all been stuck in an elevator, and attempts to find out what they have in common. These women who really lived and died in Paris in 1793 didn’t actually know each other. But if they had, what would they have said? It’s a lofty attempt at humanizing an… Continue reading →