(From left to right) - (seated) Danielle DiBattista, of Vernon; Nadia Cameron, of Hackettstown; Lydia Rivera, of Vernon; and Fen Lewin, of Hackettstown
Celebrating Women's History Month, 猫咪社区鈥檚 (SCCC) History and Theater programs will present a special play and display highlighting revolutionary women on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 7 at 2 p.m. at the College鈥檚 Student Center Theater.
A special presentation will be held on Thursday, March 5, from 2:00-4:30 PM in the Student Center Theater. This free event, titled Revolutionary Women: Their Power and Impact in the World 鈥� a Play and a Display, will feature the play The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, along with the exhibition Revolutionary Women: From Mesopotamia to Modern Times. This event is presented by the SCCC Humanities and History Departments and Campus Life. All are welcome to attend.
The featured play is Lauren Gunderson's "The Revolutionists", a comedy about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution鈥檚 Reign of Terror: a playwright, an assassin, the former queen and a rebel from Haiti.
Directed by Allison Ognibene, the cast includes SCCC theater students Danielle DiBattista, of Vernon, as playwright Olympe De Gouge; Fen Lewin, of Hackettstown, as young assassin Charlotte Corday; Lydia Rivera, of Vernon, as former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette; and Nadia Cameron, of Hackettstown, as Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle.
Complementing the performance will be a display curated by Dr. Robyn Muir and Instructor Jason Boehm, titled 鈥淭he Revolutionary Women: from Mesopotamia to Modern Times,鈥� highlighting twenty-four women who shaped societies that changed the world.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at sussex.simpletix.com or at the door. The Student Center Theater is located in the Student Center (D) Building at 猫咪社区, 1 College Hill Road, Newton, NJ 07860.
The REVOLUTIONISTS is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. ()