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Salon de la vie - Suffrage theatre online salons - June and July 2021

1/6/2021

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All images by Jacky Fleming
I'm collaborating with Scary Little Girls for the fourth season of their Salon de la Vie project - on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning!  We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.  

Join us for…

June 2nd, Votes for Children!

A look at the young people who supported the suffrage movement and found their own voice in the process.

June 16th, Birds of a Feather.
We will hear about plans to fill Parliament with suffragette parrots, talk about how the movement campaigned not just for votes for women but to end vivisection, and explore the links between vegetarianism and suffrage.

June 30th, Nobody Expects the Suffragettes!
Site specific, pop up and random acts of activism all characterised the creative shenanigans of suffragists in the theatre and entertainment industries, and in this Salon we celebrate some of the most unexpected!

July 14th, The Woman’s Theatre.
Here we will look at the way suffrage campaigners imagined a theatre they could be part of, including female producers and playwrights, crèches, and an end to the casting couch… so much to admire and yet to apply to the modern mainstream…

July 28th, Taking the Stage!

Our all live season finale bringing the work of Elizabeth Robins, Evelyn Glover and Cicely Hamilton to life before your very eyes!  Expect digital mayhem, songs, short scenes and feminist fun for all!  Tickets for this £5, the only Salon of the season we’re charging for and we are super grateful for your support!

About Salon de la Vie 

Now coming up to its fourth season, Salon de la Vie is our fortnightly series of 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation. Focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, and drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, we celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others.
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Suffrage plays on Zoom - Readings Twenty-two and twenty-three

30/4/2021

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Reading Twenty-Two - 29th March 2021

An Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side by H.M. Paull (1910)

Lord Curzon’s 15 Good Reasons against the grant of female suffrage (1909)

Miss Appleyard’s Awakening by Evelyn Glover (1911)

Showin’ Samyel by Evelyn Glover (1914)

The Woman of It, or Our Friends the Anti-Suffragists by Mary Shaw (1914).

Readers: Sarah-Louise Young, John Fleming, Jamie Newall, Charlotte Moore, Kathryn Martin, Lucy Stevens, Annie Walker, Philippa Ritchie, Maggie Saunders, Maroussia Richardson, Stephanie Ware, Jemma Churchill, Velma Von Bon Bon, Sarah Annakin, Michelle Claire.


Reading Twenty-Three - 28th April 2021

Mary Edwards by P.R. Bennett (1911)

Pot and Kettle by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John (1911)

For One Night Only 
by G.B. Stern (1911)

Readers: Catherine Harvey Green, Jamie Newall, Annie Walker, Lucy Stevens, John Fleming, Sarah Annakin, Kathryn Martin, Maslen George, Stephanie Fayerman.

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Suffrage plays on Zoom - readings twenty and twenty-one

24/3/2021

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Reading Twenty - 23rd February 2021

Act Three of Woman on Her Own by Eugene Brieux, translated by Charlotte Shaw (1913).

Readers: Sarah Annakin, Lucy Stevens, Mufrida Hayes, Sarah McCourt, John Fleming, Michelle Claire, Maggie Saunders, Annie Walker, Kathryn Martin, Jemma Churchill, Stephanie Fayerman.

Reading Twenty-One - 22nd March 2021

Lady Geraldine's Speech by Beatrice Harraden (1909),
Her Vote by H.V. Esmond (1909) 
A Suffrage Rummage Sale - An Auction Interrupted by Mary Winsor (1913). 

Readers: Sarah Annakin, Velma Von Bon Bon, Stephanie Ware, Maroussia Richardson, Lucy Stevens, Juliette Burton, John Fleming, Michelle Claire, Jemma Churchill, Philippa Ritchie, Nick Dutton, Maggie Saunders, Catherine Harvey Green, Jamie Newall.
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Suffrage plays on zoom - Readings eighteen and nineteen

20/2/2021

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Reading Eighteen - 18 February 2021

The Apple by Inez Bensusan (1911)

Edith by Elizabeth Baker (1912).

Readers: Catherine Harvey Green, Natalie Harper, Annie Walker, Jamie Newall, Sajeela Kershi, Maggie Saunders, Velma Von Bon Bon, John Fleming, Jemma Churchill, Stephanie Fayerman.

Reading Nineteen - 23rd February 2021

First two acts of Woman on Her Own by Eugene Brieux, translated by Charlotte Shaw (1913).

Readers: Philippa Ritchie, Michelle Claire, Nick Dutton, Bronwyn Elizabeth, Velma Von Bon Bon, Sajeela Kershi, Lucy Stevens, Rachel Creeger, Annie Walker, John Fleming,\Stephanie Fayerman.

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Suffrage Plays on Zoom - Readings Sixteen and Seventeen

29/1/2021

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Reading Sixteen - 17th December 2020

'Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons', 'Why We Oppose Pockets for Women', and 'Fashion notes: Past and Present' from Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller (1915)

Prologue for a Women's Theatre by Israel Zangwill (1911)

Women Do Not Want It by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

'Cautionary Tales in Verse' from Votes for Women, 6 October 1911

Readers: Maggie Saunders, Sajeela Kershi, John Fleming, Catherine Harvey Green, Annie Walker, Philippa Ritchie, Sarah McCourt, Jamie Newall, Sarah Annakin, Lucy Stevens, Jemma Churchill, Stephanie Fayerman. 


Reading Seventeen - 26th January 2021

10 Clowning Street by Joan S. Dugdale (1913)

Little Jane and Grandmama and Fair Play by Lorimer Royston (1914)

Readers: Jemma Churchill, Bronwyn Elizabeth, John Fleming, Luke Meredith, Genevieve Swallow, Catherine Harvey Green, Lucy Stevens, Maggie Saunders, Annie Walker, Jamie Newall, Sarah Annakin, Philippa Ritchie, Sarah McCourt. 

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Suffrage plays on zoom - readings fourteen and fifteen

28/11/2020

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Readings Fourteen and Fifteen - 26th November 2020

My Little Sister
by Elizabeth Robins (1913)
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Readers: Sarah Annakin, Bronwyn Elizabeth, Stephanie Fayerman, John Fleming, Sarah Ford, Catherine Harvey Green, Mufrida Hayes, Sioned Jones, Michelle Kelly, Sarah McCourt, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Philippa Ritchie, Maggie Saunders, Bob Sinfield, Lucy Stevens
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Suffrage plays on zoom- Readings Twelve and thirteen

28/11/2020

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Readings Twelve and Thirteen - 22nd November 2020

Where Are You Going To?
by Cicely Hamilton (1914)

Readers: Sarah Annakin, Rachel Creeger, Bronwyn Elizabeth, John Fleming, Maroussia Frank, Mufrida Hayes, Michelle Kelly, Sarah McCourt, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Maggie Saunders, Alison Skilbeck, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow, Sarah-Louise Young 
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Suffrage plays on zoom - reading eleven

18/11/2020

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Reading Eleven - 16th November 2020

The Woman with the Pack
by Gertrude Vaughan (1912)

Readers: Sarah Annakin, Rob Bond, John Fleming, Sarah Ford, Valentine Hanson, Sarah McCourt, Jamie Newall, Philippa Ritchie, Maggie Saunders, Lucy Stevens, Velma Von Bon Bon, Sarah-Louise Young
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Suffrage plays on zoom - reading ten

22/10/2020

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Reading Ten - 20th October 2020

Which
by Evelyn Glover (1914)
How One Woman Did It by J. L. Austin (1912)

Readers: Rob Bond, Hannah Davies, Steve Fortune, Maroussia Frank, Michelle Kelly, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Maggie Saunders, Annie Walker
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Suffrage plays on Zoom - reading eight

10/10/2020

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Reading Eight - 8th October 2020

A Bit of Blighty by Evelyn Glover (1917)
When Women Rule by Ned Joyce Heaney (1913)

Readers: Sarah Annakin, Maroussia Frank, John Fleming, Mufrida Hayes, Genevieve Swallow, Annie Walker, Alison Walls
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Suffrage plays on Zoom - Reading seven

18/9/2020

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Reading Seven - 15th September 2020

The Parrot Cage
by Mary Shaw (1914)
An Allegory by Vera Wentworth (1911)

Readers: Janice Connolly, Stephanie Fayerman, John Fleming, Catherine Harvey Green, Sajeela Kershi, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Maggie Saunders, Bob Sinfield, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow, Annie Walker
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Suffrage plays on zoom - reading six

10/9/2020

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Reading Six - 8th September 2020

Her Will
by Christopher St John (1914)
At the Gates by Alice Chapin (1909)

Readers: Caroline Cooke, Stephanie Fayerman, Emma Fenney, Sarah Ford, Lucy Frederick, Kathryn Martin, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Bob Sinfield, Alison Skilbeck, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow
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Suffrage Plays on Zoom - Reading five

28/8/2020

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Reading Five - 25th August 2020

Honour Thy Father by H. M. Harwood (1912)
Criminals by George Middleton (1915)

Readers: Rob Bond, John Fleming, Mark Huckett, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Alice Robinson, Maggie Saunders, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow
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Suffrage plays on Zoom - reading four

22/8/2020

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Reading Four - 18th August 2020

The Reforming of Augustus
by Irene Rutherford McLeod (1910)
In the Workhouse by Margaret Wynne Nevinson (1911)

Readers: Jemma Churchill, Caroline Cooke, Maroussia Frank, Lucy Frederick, Sajeela Kershi, Kathryn Martin, Maggie Saunders, Genevieve Swallow, Annie Walker, Sarah-Louise Young
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Suffrage plays on Zoom - Reading three

12/8/2020

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Reading Three - 11th August 2020
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Jack and Jill and a Friend
by Cicely Hamilton (1911)
Votes for Children by Ernest Hutchinson (1913)

Readers: Rob Bond, Kudzanayi Chiwawa, John Fleming, Maroussia Frank, Lucy Frederick, Mark Huckett, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Bob Sinfield, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow, Velma Von Bon Bon, Annie Walker
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