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£12.99
ISBN 978-1-906582-01-2
pbk 256 pages
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VOTES FOR WOMEN
and other plays
Ed. Susan Croft
The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political stage with their satirical plays, sketches and monologues whilst at the same time challenging the staid conventions of the Edwardian Theatre of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both theatre and society has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today.
Introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Croft together with a chronology of suffrage drama.
How the Vote was Won
by Cicely Hamilton and Chris St. John
The Apple by Inez Bensusan
Jim's Leg by L.S. Phibbs
Votes for women by Elizabeth Robins
At the Gates by Alice Chapin
In the Workhouse by Margaret Wynne Nevinson
A Change of Tenant by Helen Margaret Nightingale
Dr Susan Croft
Has done extensive research and published widely on women playwrights. Her work includes She Also Wrote Plays (Faber 2001). From 1997-2005 she was the Curator of Contempoary Performance at Theatre Museum in London.
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