Milliner and the Weaver, The
- Short Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
- 1M, 2F
- ISBN: 9781848421165
Henrietta from Belfast and Elspeth from Dublin are unlikely comrades.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1910s / WWI
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Henrietta from Belfast and Elspeth from Dublin are unlikely comrades. The Suffragette movement binds them together, but as the question of Home Rule divides Ireland, will national politics tear them apart?
Marie Jones's short play The Milliner and the Weaver was first performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of the Women, Power and Politics season in June 2010.
It is available in the collection Women, Power and Politics: Then.
REVIEWS:
"Touchingly explores the way Belfast suffragettes in 1914 found their cause overtaken by the issue of home rule."
The Guardian
"An acidic, cleverly detailed scene of feminist conflict."
WhatsOnStage.com
Premiere Production:
Tricycle Theatre, London, 2010.
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers
