My Vacation in Paris

My Vacation in Paris

My Vacation in Paris

My Vacation in Paris

My Vacation in Paris

Overview

In the months leading up to the French Revolution Thomas Jefferson’s two daughters spend an afternoon with revolutionary and early feminist Olympe De Gouges and her son Pierre learning about the Revolution and questioning their own understanding of the word freedom. With the two girls is their slave Sally Hemings who is faced with a decision regarding her own freedom that will alter all of their lives. 

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Details

  • Genre: Period
  • Time Period: 18th Century
  • Cast Attributes: Roles for Teens
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences, Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Authors

Joe Calarco

Joe Calarco's published work includes in the absence of spring (inaugural production of Second Stage’s New Plays Uptown series, included in The Best Stage Scenes of 2004); Shakespeare’s R&J (Lucille Lortel Award); Walter Cronkite is Dead; and his short plays Just A Little Sni ...

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