March, 2024
UEA Drama Studio
Royals, nobles and clergy vs the People. Marie-Antoinette, Robespierre, The Storming of La Bastille, Declaration of the Rights of Man, jugglers, royals on the run, la guillotine, something for everyone!
"Les aristocrates à la lanterne. Ça ira!"
This year’s production combined key episodes of the French Revolution, from early attempts to reform the monarchy to the queen's execution, with light musical intervals largely drawn from the vast repertoire of revolutionary and other contemporary songs.
Our own script, inspired by, and adapted liberally from, Le Théâtre du Soleil, parallels their production with perspectives from other work on the same theme. Comic and tragic, the production celebrates the ethos of collective creation, both in our scripting and in the input of performers, as a signal of a response to oppression across the ages. Programme below.
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