Inspiration for The Revolutionists

COSTUMES: Check out this website as a great starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1775%E2%80%931795_in_Western_fashion Robe a la Polonaise, 1780-85, France, from: https:// www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83887

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1775%E2%80%931795_in_Western_fashion#French_Revolution: As the radicals and Jacobins became more powerful, there was a revulsion against high-fashion because of its extravagance and its association with royalty and aristocracy. It was replaced with a sort of "anti-fashion" for men and women that emphasized simplicity and modesty. The men wore plain, dark clothing and short unpowdered hair. During the Terror of 1794, the workaday outfits of the sans-culottes symbolized Jacobin egalitarianism.

High fashion and extravagance returned to France and its satellite states under the Directory, 1795–99, with its "directoire" styles; the men did not return to extravagant customs.[5] These trends would reach their height in the classically-styled fashions of the late 1790s and early 19th century.[6] For men, coats, waistcoats and stockings of previous decades continued to be fashionable across the Western world, although they too changed silhouette in this period, becoming slimmer and using earthier colors and more matte fabrics.

ABOVE: This caricature contrasts 1778 (at right) and 1793 (at left) styles for both men and women, showing the large changes in just 15 years OPPOSITE: French sans-culotte, 1790s INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES, WHERE MARIE ANTOINETTE WOULD HAVE LIVED

Late 18th Century French Hairstyles, from https:// thevintagethimble.tumblr.com/post/49915750416/18th-centurywomans-hairstyles-a-collection-of\ Dramaturgical Study of The Revolutionists: Information on the Playwright: Lauren Gunderson, named THE MOST PRODUCED LIVING PLAYWRIGHT!!: http://laurengunderson.com/ Info about the play: https://therevolutionists.tumblr.com/

A study guide for the play!: https://issuu.com/everymantheatre/docs/ revolutionists-playguide-issuu

LAUREN GUNDERSON: Lauren was bOrn in Atlanta. She is 38 years Old and currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and children and teaches playwrighting. She is one of the few writers who writes strictly for the stage.

Mrs. Gunderson earned her BA in creative writing froM EmOry University in 2004 and her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU in 2009. She’s married to virologist Nathan Wolfe.

Mrs. Gunderson’s work focuses on female historical figures in history, science and literature1. She has had more than 20 plays produced so far and is one of the most produced living playwrights. Her most famous plays include The Revolutionists, Silent Sky and Exit, Pursued By A Bear. Her play I and You won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theater Critics Association New Play Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The play was produced at Hampstead Theater in 2018, starring Maisie Williams, of Game of Thrones fame. Gunderson won the Lanford Wilson award in 2016.

Her play Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight is based on the 18th Century physicists of the same name. The play opened at he Arts West Theater in January 2011. Another well known play by Gunderson, Parts They Call Deep, won the 2002 Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition and was produced Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater.

Gunderson has made some of her plays available for activism causes. Her all-female political farce, The Taming, based off of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, is about a beauty queen with a constitutional law degree, a republican Jones, Chad (2013-10-01). "Lauren Gunderson and Jennifer Le Blanc Share Heart and Mind".

AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2019-03-08.

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senator’s aide and a liberal online influencer who are all locked in a hotel together trying to make America better. Gunderson believes that theater can make a lasting change in society2.

A list of her plays: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

2001 Parts They Call Deep 2004 Leap 2005 Background 2005 Eye Of The Beheld 2010 Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight 2011 The Amazing Adventures Of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog! 2011 Rock Creek: Southern Gothic 2012 Exit, Pursued By A Bear 2012 We Are Denmark 2013 By And By 2013 Toil & Trouble 2014 I And You 2014 Fire Work 2015 Ada And The Memory Engine 2015 Bauer 2015 Silent Sky 2015 The Taming 2017 The Book Of Will 2017 Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley 2017 The Revolutionists 2018 Natural Shocks 2019 Jeannette (Musical) 2019 The Half-Life of Marie Curie

Editors, American Theatre (2016-11-17). "Lauren Gunderson's Inauguration Day Gift: A Free 'Taming'". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2019-03-08.

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OPPOSITE: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was one of the most influential figures in fashion during the 1770s and 1780s, especially when it came to hairstyles.

Marie Antoinette

Charlotte Corday, this portrait was painted at her request only hours before her execution

Marianne Angelle

Olympe de Gouges

Olympe

Marie

Charlotte

Marianne

Charlotte Marianne

Marie

A late 18th century bedroom

Palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles

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Peasants from 18th c. France: https:// www.pinterest.com/pin/350014202261042709/

http:// museumblog.winterthur.org /2015/02/12/frenchfashions-on-paperadvertising-the-coiffurein-18th-century-paris/ Royalty/upper class fashion in 18th c. France