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Three
One-Act Suffrage Plays.
How the Vote was Won by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher
St John.
A Chat with Mrs Chicky by Evelyn Glover.
Press Cuttings by George Bernard Shaw.
Finborough Theatre, August/September 2003.
Directed by Laura Dunton Clarke.
set and costume designer: Alex Marker. Lighting Designer: Robert
Gooch.
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Costumes
for Suffragettes.
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Set
model. Scale 1:25.
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The
Real thing.
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How
The Vote Was Won. Winifred (Anna Ledwich).
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Press
Cuttings. General Mitchener (Edmund Dehn) and Prime Minister Balsquith
(John Edmunds).
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Three
period one-act plays, eleven actors, the tiny Finborough Theatre
and a budget of nine hundred pounds. I overcame these problems by
suggesting that scenically we present the evening as though it were
a performance by the Women's Social and Political Union in their
quest to promote their cause.
The Finborough Arms was built in 1868 and luckily the theatre space
on the first floor retains many of the original period features
(albeit under layers of black paint). To this end I recreated what
the space might have been like when it was a pub function room in
c.1910, dressed by 'the company'. |
