A one woman show based on the life of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), composer and suffragette. Directed by Kirrie Wratten.
This show offers an insight into the life of a talented and headstrong woman, born into the Victorian era but a bold rebel against the Victorian stereotype of femininity.
We meet Ethel Smyth towards the end of her life when, still full of energy and humour, she is attempting to sort through a box of 'junk'. Each item brings back memories of her colourful career as a composer, conductor, suffragette and writer.
We hear of early battles with her father, her musical studies in Germany, the performance of her great choral work at the Albert Hall, her operas, her books, her contacts with Johannes Brahms, Thomas Beecham, the Empress Eugenie, Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf, and her two-year involvement with Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffrage movement which led to a stay in Holloway Prison following a great window-breaking campaign.
Her thoughts on the rights of women are of lasting relevance today.
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