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Between Two Fires - Modern Plays
Sylvia Pankhurst
You re between two fires They re very warm sometimes. Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his colleagues. A middle-aged married man; he is also in love with the young socialist suffragette Freda McLaird. Things look bleak for the cause and the man.
Still Noah inspired by his soulmate has time for hope and beauty. He looks forward to a time when the movement will be stronger. Sylvia Pankhurst wrote this previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the infamous HMP Holloway in 1920/21.
Deprived of writing materials in solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie Labour s founding leader with a contraband pencil on prison issue toilet paper. It would be nearly a hundred years before Pankhurst s biographer Dr Rachel Holmes would discover the play via painstaking analysis of the delicate fragments jumbled into brown envelopes in the archives of the British Library. Holmes arrangement of the incomplete text brings the poignant story to life in this startlingly topical drama that speaks directly to our own times.
48 pages
| Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
| Vrijgegeven | 16 september 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350353848 |
| Uitgevers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pagina's | 48 |
| Afmetingen | 197 × 128 × 6 mm · 56 g |
| Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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