Full 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.
Contents
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
Jim's Leg (1913) 209
Chronology 216
Bibliography 239
Universal Suffrage dates 245
Useful links 255
