<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Our next play, The Revolutionists, opens Friday, March 10, and runs through Sunday, March 26. We really need House Managers! If you would like to help us out, please email or call us. A description of the play is below.<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Play: The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson. The Scene: Paris, The Reign of</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Terror, 1793. </span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Might s</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ound foreign</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, but g</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">et ready because this story is utterly</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">relatable, funny, fast</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">-paced,</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and hard</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">-</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hitting. It’s a story that will ring true for the downtrodden</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, the rebels</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and anyone who’s ever tried to write anything, anytime, ever.</span><div dir="ltr"></div></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Olympe</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> de Gouges</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, prolific French</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> playwright</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, is</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> desperate to create something meaningful,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">something that’s not written from the ivory tower of privilege but from the trenches of</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">real life. Things take a turn as a vast array of characters come tumbling in, from</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> assassin </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Charlotte Corday to queen </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Marie Antoinette</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Questions come to the forefront like, what good is fiction when real tyranny is going on</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">right in front of you? How does real change </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">happen,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and can art impel it? How will</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">history remember us. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Revolutionists is directed</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> by Autumn Gieb and stars Brigitte</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Kearns, Lisa Taylor, Penny Bever and Karen </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Buerdsell</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Costumes are by Melissa Munoz Chavez</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Props are by Darlene </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">DeMondo</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Set Design is by Joshua </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Taulbee</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and Light Design is by</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Be</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">kah</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Taulbee</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Tickets are now on sale for this funny, heart-string-pulling play at the Black Box</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Theatre in Las Cruces, New Mexico, located at <span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">430 N. Main Street</span></span>. Showing <span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">from</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">March 10</span></span> - 26th. Call <span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">(575) 523-1223</span></span> or online at <span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">www.no-strings.org</span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 18px;"><br></p></div></body></html>