Votes for Women : And Other Plays Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Robins, Helen Margaret Nightingale, Alice Chapin, Cicely Hamilton, Chris St John, Inez Bensusan, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, L.S. Phibbs
Edited by Susan Croft
Paperback / softback
Description
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, agitprop and verbatim theatre we know today. Introduced and set in an historical context by Dr Susan Croft together with a chronology of suffrage drama.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Aurora Metro Publications
- Publication Date:20/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781906582012
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Aurora Metro Publications
- Publication Date:20/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781906582012
