Audition Announcement for The Revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson
Audition dates: Sunday, June 29 from 6-8 pm & Monday, June 30 from 7-8 pm.
Callbacks will be Monday, June 30 from 8-9:30. Callbacks are by invitation only.
Audition Location: Evergreen Theatre, 1705 Poplar Ave, Memphis 38104
Directed by Kell Christie
Production Dates: February 6-22, 2026
Rehearsals will begin around Dec. 7, 2025
More info: 901-484-3467
Audition sides for callbacks are posted at www.newmoontheatre.org/auditions
Online audition time slots available at
https://signup.com/go/iiJxsNy
Character information and breakdown below. NO PARTS HAVE BE PRECAST, ALL ROLES ARE OPEN
Auditions will consist of a 10 minute time slot, in which we ask that you prepare a monologue (30 seconds to 1 minute). You will also be asked to read from the play.
Callbacks will consist of cold readings from the script.
Please sign up at
https://signup.com/go/iiJxsNy for one 10 minute time slot.
Please make sure to arrive with plenty of time to complete your audition form.
If you need to cancel your slot and can’t get it done online, please call us at 901-484-3467 or email at
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Note: All roles are written for female-identifying actors. Ages are suggested based on historical context but may be flexible depending on the ensemble's dynamic. All ethnicities encouraged to audition.
OLYMPE DE GOUGES
Age range: 40s–50s
A playwright and political activist who believes in the power of words to change the world. Olympe is torn between staying safe and speaking up during the French Revolution. She serves as the central figure of the play and often breaks the fourth wall.
MARIANNE ANGELLE
Age range: 30s–40s
A fierce, intelligent Haitian freedom fighter and spy. Marianne is grounded, pragmatic, and passionate about justice, especially for her people in the French colonies. Though fictional, she represents real Black women who were central to the Haitian Revolution. Strong presence, powerful voice of conscience in the play. Black actress required.
CHARLOTTE CORDAY
Age range: 20s
A young radical assassin who is determined to K*ll journalist Jean-Paul Marat.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Age range: 30s–40s
The former queen of France, played with comedic flair and unexpected depth. Initially frivolous, charming, and a bit out of touch, Marie grows increasingly human and poignant as she faces her fate.
Synopsis
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. 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.
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