My Vacation In Paris

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.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

SALLY HEMINGS: 16yo. An enslaved person to Thomas Jefferson. Light skinned. A dreamer.

MARTHA JEFFERSON: 17yo. Daughter to Thomas Jefferson. Smart. Contained. A good hostess.

MARIA JEFFERSON: 11yo. Daughter to Thomas Jefferson. Precocious. Vivacious. An optimist.

JAMES HEMINGS:19yo. Brother of Sally Hemmings. Thomas Jefferson's chef. Loyal. Fiercely devoted to his sister.

OLYMPE DE GOUGES: 41yo. A ferocious advocate for women’s rights and a supporter of the aristocracy. A “bohemian.”

PIERRE AUBREY: 23yo. Olympe’s son. A French revolutionary. A leader of the rebellion. Passionate. Speaks his mind.

SOPHIE: 20yo. Servant to Olympe. Contained. Well educated.

CITIZENS:A minimum of two men and one woman.