{"id":22688,"date":"2024-10-27T01:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/?post_type=play&p=22688"},"modified":"2024-10-27T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:10:24","slug":"revolutionaries-wives","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/revolutionaries-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionaries` Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u2026I managed to take control of myself<\/em><\/p>\n

by coping day in day out with my ill-tempered wife,<\/em><\/p>\n

knowing full well that if I manage to cope<\/em><\/p>\n

with Xanthippe\u2019s mean and sour demeanor,<\/em><\/p>\n

I could most likely deal with any man in the world\u2026” (Socrates)<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone knows the saying, “Behind every successful man stands a woman.”<\/p>\n

But what does it truly mean to \u201cstand behind\u201d a genius?<\/p>\n

What prices does a woman pay to stand behind such a man, and why, after all, is she behind him and not<\/p>\n

beside him? And why does she vanish from the stage of history while he earns eternal fame?<\/p>\n

At the center of Revolutionaries Wives stand three men whose revolutions remain relevant to us all today,<\/p>\n

.and beside them, their partners\u2014whose contributions to these revolutions went unrecognized<\/p>\n

In one fateful night in each couple\u2019s life, the play enters the intimate spaces of Freud and his wife, Martha,<\/p>\n

probing her role in his theories on female sexuality; demands justice for Jenny Marx, born a baroness yet<\/p>\n

fighting alongside her husband, Karl, for workers\u2019 rights; and redeems the honor of Xanthippe, Socrates\u2019 wife,<\/p>\n

.who was unjustly remembered as a difficult woman embittering her husband\u2019s life<\/p>\n

The play \u201cRevolutionaries` Wives\u201d creates an imaginary, although plausible, history that rescues the wives of<\/p>\n

.the geniuses who changed the world from oblivion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u2026I managed to take control of myself by coping day in day out with my ill-tempered wife, knowing full well that if I manage to cope with Xanthippe\u2019s mean and sour demeanor, I could most likely deal with any man in the world\u2026” (Socrates) Everyone knows the saying, “Behind every successful man stands a woman.”… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22652,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/22688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/22688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22700,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/22688\/revisions\/22700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}