Image: Fall 2025 Audition: The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson. Directed by Asia Meana. REHEARSAL Actors will meet in early May for some preliminary table work, in-person or via Zoom (depending on everyone’s availability). Because of the narrow rehearsal window for this slot, actors must be off book by our first rehearsal: Monday, August 18th. Most weeks actors will rehearse Monday-Friday, 6:30-10:30 p.m. There will be a few additional weekend rehearsals, as needed. Tech begins on Wednesday, September 17th. Performances run from Friday, September 27th, to Sunday, October 5th. All conflicts communicated prior to the role's acceptance will be considered, and the staging team will do their best to accommodate requests. AUDITIONS To sign up for a time slot, you must: Submit your online audition form at the following link here: AUDITION FORM Select a time slot in which you will audition here: TIME SLOTS Please prepare a 1-2-minute contemporary monologue not from The Revolutionists and 30 seconds to 1 minute of a cappella singing (any genre/style). Callbacks will include readings of sides. Auditions-Tuesday, April 22nd, will be held in room 352 from 5:30 to 10:00 pm. Callbacks-Thursday, April 24th, will be held in room 352 from 5:30 to 10:00 pm. Actors cast in The Revolutionists will not be able to audition for or be cast in Evil Dead. For general auditions on April 22, actors must bring a headshot and resume. NOTE: We are looking for an Assistant Director! Please email director Asia Meana and Chelsea Taylor if you are interested in assistant directing: Asia Meana, asiam@uga.edu.Chelsea Taylor, chelsea.taylor@uga.edu SYNOPSIS Paris, 1793: The revolution has swelled to a fever pitch, and heads are rolling! Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, once-queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle find themselves in the eye of the storm: Olympe’s study. Together, they must grapple with their thoughts and feelings about art, activism, feminism, leadership, love, and violence. …but make it a comedy! This rich and raucous work of revisionist history provides prismatic perspective on some under-sung figures of the French Revolution (+ Marie Antoinette 😉), leveraging dream-logic and anachronism to illuminate the all-too-human cycles of oppression, confusion, and resistance. There are also puppets! At the heart of it all, four women forge fierce kinship before their time is up. CAST BREAKDOWN All four characters are wonderfully juicy and they each offer a uniquely enriching challenge! Please note, though, that a significant time and energy commitment is required for all of them - they are all equally important and have comparable stage time. An understudy will be cast for each role. The casting team will consider actors of any gender for all four roles. All actors must be comfortable wearing feminine clothing. We will also consider actors of any race/ethnicity for all roles except Marianne, who must be played by a Black actor. ROLE DESCRIPTION OLYMPE DE GOUGES Activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate. She has huge dreams and equally huge anxieties. The world in her mind, a lavish musical (festooned with puppets), collides with the less-fun grit of the revolution beyond her study walls. CHARLOTTE CORDAY Country girl with a lot of conviction and nothing to lose… except her life. Very serious, very studious. Her intelligence, political views, and geographic isolation have crystallized into a pretty terrifying righteousness. Underneath it all, she’s just a kid. Also plays FRATERNITÉ (with a puppet). MARIE-ANTOINETTE Former queen of France. Out-of-touch and larger-than-life. Bubbly, opinionated, totally unaware, obliviously rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend. Opposite of Charlotte -- she’s infantile on the outside and an old, weary soul on the inside. Also plays FRATERNITÉ (with a puppet). MARIANNE ANGELLE A razor-sharp rebel with a very good cause. She is from the Caribbean, a free woman, a spy collaborating with her husband in the struggle to liberate Haiti (then Saint-Domingue) from French colonial tyranny. She sees through everyone else’s BS and is entirely unafraid to look reality in the face.
