The amazing 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 sketches, comic monologues and powerful plays, challenging the status quo and the chaste conventions of the day. The legacy of their inspiring work to change both society and theatre has survived in the political theatre, agit-prop and verbatim theatre we know today.
An important new student source book for colleges, universities, and libraries, this is an anthology of the best short plays by female dramatists concerning woman suffrage. Launched in conjunction with Classic Plays by Women.
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.
An important new student source book for colleges, universities and libraries.
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"This book is brilliant - it has some better known Suffrage Plays and some lesser known gems as well as a list of all the Suffrage plays performed and lots of extra info. It's an extraordinary resource. Total gem. The author wears her scholarship lightly and it is easy to read - however the amount of information is fantastic and very detailed. There is so much to this book and it is an essential and much needed addition to the books available on Suffrage theatre. "- NP Amazon *****
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to the collections of Suffragette plays 2 Sept. 2016
By Angus Hepburn - Published on Amazon.com
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"An excellent collection with lots of background information and references. Some duplications with other collections, but the pieces exclusive to this collection and the extremely informative author and historical background pieces make this well worth while."
Introduction 7
Votes for Women (1907) 21
A Change of Tenant (1908) 107
At the Gates (1909) 121
How the Vote was Won (1909) 141
The Apple (1911) 167
In the Workhouse (1911) 193
Jims Leg (1913) 209
Chronology 216
Bibliography 239
Universal Suffrage dates 245
Useful links 255
Susan Croft Susan is a writer, historian, curator and researcher. She worked in the USA with the Omaha Magic Theatre in the early 1980s, returning to Britain to work as a dramaturg with small-scale theatre companies and founding New Playwrights Trust, of which she was Director from 1986-89. She taught Creative Arts (Performance) at Nottingham Trent University and then was Senior Research Fellow in Performance Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University to 1996. From 1997-2005 she was Curator of Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum where she worked on the National Video Archive of Performance. She also curated four major exhibitions including Let Paul Robeson Sing! and Architects of Fantasy and pioneered a range of initiatives to record the history of black and Asian theatre in Britain. She has written extensively on women playwrights, including: She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights from the 10th to the 21st Century (Faber and Faber, 2001). She is working on a Critical Bibliography of Plays Published by Women Playwrights in English to 1914 for Manchester University Press and a major anthology Staging the New Woman, with Sherry Engle. She also runs the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of Alternative Theatre, with Jessica Higgs, a major initiative to record oral histories and preserve archives of the alternative theatre movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. See www.susan.croft.btinternet.co.uk for further details. She lives in London with her partner and two children.
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