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Readings Fourteen and Fifteen - 26th November 2020 My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins (1913)
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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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 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 In September I did a show called 'An Afternoon with Ada Campe' at the Phoenix Arts Club in London. It was the longest bit of live performance I'd done since February, and was packed full with new material including a socially distanced magic trick and some songs - the first time Ada had sung on stage. It was great fun - and a second show called 'A Late Afternoon with Ada Campe' happened at Above the Stag Theatre in Vauxhall in November - simultaneously my first and last live appearance that month due to the implementation of the second lockdown in London.
After both shows I had a sort of post-show 'hangover' that lasted for days - the rush and excitement of performing live again and packing in so much new material at once was wonderful, but whereas in pre-COVID times I was used to finishing Ada shows with a great release of tension, for both of these the tension seemed to stay in my body... presumably because the chance to perform live has been so rare during 2020 that I didn't want to let the feeling or memory of it go. 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 Reading Nine - 15th October 2020 Supposing by Sewell Collins (1913) The First Actress by Christopher St John (1911) Readers: Sarah Annakin, Nick Dutton, Stephanie Fayerman, Maroussia Frank, John Fleming, Catherine Harvey Green, Michelle Kelly, Sajeela Kershi, Sarah McCourt, Charlotte Moore, Jamie Newall, Bobbie O'Callaghan, Philippa Ritchie, Maggie Saunders, Velma Von Bon Bon, Annie Walker, Faye Wilson 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 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 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 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 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 Reading Three - 11th August 2020 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 Reading Two - 4th August 2020 A Woman's Influence by Gertrude Jennings (1909) Might is Right by Netta Syrett (1909) Readers: Rob Bond, Jemma Churchill, Stephanie Fayerman, John Fleming, Charlotte Moore, Maggie Saunders, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow, Annie Walker, Ben Wendel, Velma Von Bon Bon, Sarah-Louise Young Reading One - 27th July 2020 An Anti-Suffrage Monologue by Marie Jenney Howe (1913) arranged for six voices Home Again aka Home Coming aka Twenty Years by Cicely Hamilton (1910) Readers: Charlotte Moore, Maggie Saunders, Lucy Stevens, Genevieve Swallow, Velma Von Bon Bon, Annie Walker
Part of the joy of research is finding surprises in archives, newspapers, autobiographies and ephemera.
Often these stories don't fit the narrative of whatever writing task is at hand at that moment and so get forgotten, but since 2017 I've been thrilled to give many of them a wider audience on BBC Radio 3's Time Traveller series - broadcast every morning just after 10am as part of the live Essential Classics programme on Radio 3 and then subsequently collated into themes for the Time Traveller podcast. Through this series I've been able to tell over twenty stories from the past about magic, art, sport, theatre, music, dance, and of course the suffrage campaign. |
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