NORMAN HOLLAND'S 1969 play depicts the passions aroused in 1908 by the fight for female suffrage. With clever use of a split interior/exterior set designed by MICHAEL EDWARDS and excellent period costumes (by Director SHIRLEY LOVELL and ALISON WOOLFORD), the action takes place in and around the home of Josiah Malin (MICHAEL HESELDIN), an Alderman and Mayor elect who refuses to take the local Suffragette group seriously until he's forced to by events, and members of his own household.
Amusing and impassioned by turn, this production features some promising débuts - DOUGLAS MACKIE, highly sympathetic as a visiting Liberal, EILEEN BELLAMY, making the Suffragette's impact very real, and TIM ELWOOD, droll as a wordless policeman.
More 'regular' performers are equally worthy, especially JANINE BLACKMORE, touching and effective as a fragile, almost fanatical devotee and KIRSTY TURNER as Malin's formidable wife.
This show, their 138th, marks the Worthy Players' 40th anniversary.
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