Suffrage on stage - 2008-2018

I wrote a blog post about suffrage plays for the Vote 100 project - you can read it here. Whilst doing it, I began to compile a list of all the professional performances of suffrage plays, old and new, since 2008... and I'd like you to check yours or one you attended or one that you are putting on next year is on the list, and if not, comment on this post so I can add it to the list! 

I am including:

• Professional productions of plays written by suffragist writers that feature suffrage as a theme or were performed for suffragist audiences between 1908-1918
• New written and/or devised work based on the lives of individual suffragists or suffragettes, female or male
• New written and/or devised work based on suffrage plays, novels or songs
• Site-specific performances featuring or highlighting suffragists and suffragettes
• Performative commemorations or celebrations of suffragists and suffragettes
• Filmed performances of any of the above
• Interactive and immersive performances of any of the above
• Applied theatre/community based projects about suffrage that lead to a public performance
• Upcoming performances of new or existing work in 2017 and 2018
• Anything else that I've missed out here but that you think should be included!

At the moment I am not including projects or performances that have only taken place in formal education institutions, so schools, colleges and universities... unless those performances were/are open to the public or are made available to the public online through video, audio or other online dissemination.

​Please don't be cross if yours is not there - comment and I will add it to the list. This first list is purely made up of projects and performances I remember being in, putting on, attending or knowing about so is limited by those factors.

Please comment and let's make it a much better and more inclusive and more extensive list!

Here's the list so far - arranged by year at the moment:

2008

Actresses' Franchise League readings, Novello Theatre
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, National Theatre
Suffragettes: 100 years, Orange Tree Theatre

2009

Actresses' Franchise League readings, Prince of Wales Theatre 

2010

Knickerbocker Glories at the Union Theatre,
 The Milliner and the Weaver by Marie Jones, part of Women, Power and Politics, Tricycle Theatre

2011

​A Pageant of Great Women, presented by Fragments and Monuments at the University of Hull

2012
???

2013

Emily: The Making of A Militant Suffragette, Cambridge Devised Theatre (also 2014), tour
Muriel Matters, Sonia Bible, film
Oxygen, Dreadnought South West, tour
To Hear Her Voice, Clare Neylon, film
To Freedom’s Cause by Kate Willoughby, tour
Pageant of Great Women, YouTube
Stage Rights, A Living Literature Walk, Scary Little Girls, London
Suffragettes on Stage, National Theatre
Up The Women, Series One, BBC

2014

CauseWay, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and Cottage
Fight for the Right: the Birmingham Suffragettes by Sima Gonsai, short film  
Paper Dolls by A Cat and Mouse Act, London
The First Actress, Palindrome Productions, London
​To Freedom’s Cause by Kate Willoughby, House of Commons

2015

Suffrage stories, Pankhurst centre, Wonder Women, Manchester
Suffragette, Film
The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side, YouTube
The Hard Way Up – A Suffragette’s Story, Wonder Women, Manchester
The Orchard, Dreadnought South West
Up The Women, Series Two, BBC​
Votes for Women, BBC Radio 3
​Women at Rada, Bloomsbury Festival, Conway Hall

2016

A Particular Theatre: Shakespeare, Suffragists and Soldiers, Being Human Festival, London
Change, Acting Coach Scotland, Edinburgh Fringe
Freedom for Women is Not a Crime, Trowbridge Town Hall 
Lady Connie and the Suffragettes, Cambridge Devised Theatre, tour
March of Women by Fragments and Monuments, Glasgow
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut, Digital Drama, London
Shoulder to Shoulder by Nimble Troop Productions, London
Stage Rights, A Living Literature Walk, Scary Little Girls, London​

2017

Everything is Possible, York Theatre Royal
Deeds not Words, a Hebridean suffragette play ​by Toria Banks, Rural Nations Scotland CIC
Deeds Not Words; Endell Street Military Hospital, Digital Drama, London
Just to Get Married, Papercut Theatre and Finborough Theatre
Princess Suffragette, London Grey and Green Theatre Company
 Sylvia by Lynx Theatre and Poetry
Woman on Fire, Certain Curtain, Edinburgh Fringe
Women, the West End and the Western Front, Being Human Festival, London

2018

​The Orchard, Dreadnought South West
[Title tbc], Mikron Theatre​