She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

Left to Right: Arika Thames (Marianne Angelle), Anna DiGiovanni (Olympe de Gouges), Fabiolla Da Silva (Marie-Antoinette), and Danielle Gallo (Charlotte Corday) in ...

Pictured, left to right, The assassin Charlotte Corday (Katherine Hamilton), the playwright Olympe de Gouges (Gabriella Goldstein) and the spy Marianne Angelle (Kimberly Ridgeway) search for just the ...

It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle and Queen Marie Antoinette — find themselves holed up ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2 ...

Olympe de Gouges (1748 –1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her writings on women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. Macy’s connection to De Gouges goes far ...

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