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Knickerbocker Glories is a triple bill of one-act Suffragette comedies written for the Actresses Franchise League - a group founded in December 1908 at the Criterion restaurant which supported the suffrage cause and included the most famous West End actresses of the Edwardian period. Three comic plays in one evening? You didn't know that there were such things? Come and be delighted by a slice of feminist, political and theatrical history that still challenges us today!

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Archive listings for Knickerbocker Glories (2010)

Work type: Play.

Ladyt Geraldine's Speech/Miss Appleyard's Awakening/How the Vote Was Won - T48183942

In Miss Appleyard’s Awakening an anti-suffrage campaigner collecting signatures for a petition finds herself in the home of a sympathizer but ends up inadvertently drawing her hostesses’ attention to the contradictions in her arguments - and leaves having had quite the opposite effect than the one she intended. Lady Geraldine’s Speech is a fantastic, fun piece for six actresses - Lady Geraldine hasn’t thought through the Suffrage cause and, on a visit to an old school friend meets some charismatic, successful and intelligent women who soon enlighten and encourage her onto the right path! How The Vote Was Won was and remains one of the most popular suffrage plays - Horace Cole finds his comfortable home invaded by his female relations when all the women in Britain decide to stop work and demand support from their nearest male relative... what will he do?Author Beatrice Harraden (Lady Geraldine's Speech). Author Evelyn Glover (Miss Appleyard's Awakening). Author Cicely Hamilton (How the Vote Was Won). Author Christopher St John (How the Vote Was Won). Director Samantha Bond. Director Sam Kenyon. Performer Karen Fisher-Pollard. Performer Jeremy Lloyd Thomas. Performer Ruth Keeling. Performer Kathryn Martin. Performer Charlotte Moore. Performer Naomi Paxton. Performer Celestine Randall. Performer Beatrice Rose. Performer Finnian Tweed.

8 Jun 10 to 26 Jun 10

Union Theatre, Inner London :: V1167
listing details L01721257320

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