SCCC Celebrates Women’s History Month With “The Revolutionists” and History Display

Staff Writer

Photo by Allison Ognibene. 

(seated) Danielle DiBattista, of Vernon; Nadia Cameron, of Hackettstown; Lydia Rivera, of Vernon; and Fen Lewin, of Hackettstown will be performing “The Revolutionists” by Lauren Gunderson at Sussex County Community College on March 6-7.

Celebrating Women's History Month, Sussex County Community College’s (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’s Student Center Theater. 

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’s 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 Professor Jason Boehm entitled “The Revolutionary Women: from Mesopotamia to Modern Times” highlighting twenty-four women who impacted 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 Building D on the campus of Sussex County Community College, 1 College Hill Road, Newton, NJ 07860. Learn more about Sussex County Community College by visiting www.sussex.edu. 

The REVOLUTIONISTS is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)