Details

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! 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?

Cast/Performers

Karen Fisher-Pollard, Jeremy Lloyd Thomas, Ruth Keeling, Kathryn Martin, Charlotte Moore, Naomi Paxton, Celestine Randall, Beatrice Rose, Finnian Tweed

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Beatrice Harraden (Lady Geraldine's Speech), Evelyn Glover (Miss Appleyard's Awakening), Cicely Hamilton (How the Vote Was Won), Christopher St John (How the Vote Was Won)
Director(s): Samantha Bond, Sam Kenyon