{"id":1285,"date":"2024-01-12T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1285"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:51:49","slug":"october-2018-a-necessary-woman-how-the-vote-was-won","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1285","title":{"rendered":"October 2018 &#8211; A Necessary Woman\/How The Vote Was Won"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/suffrage-plays-holding-image-v3-01-e1536166663791.png?w=758\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1288\" style=\"width:294px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Playwrights (A Necessary Woman) &#8211; Deborah Clair and Philippa Urquhart. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Playwrights (How the Vote Was Won) &#8211; Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Location &#8211; Harrogate Studio Theatre<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director &#8211; Sue Rawson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cast<\/strong> <strong>of A Necessary Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emily Wilding Davison &#8211; Shona Lang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary Tatton &#8211; Jenny Antram<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cast of How The Vote Was<\/strong> <strong>Won<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winifred\/Maudie Spark (Horace&#8217;s first cousin) &#8211; Carole Carpenter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethel Cole &#8211; Emma Towning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horace Cole &#8211; Bob Mallow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agatha Cole (Horace\u2019s sister) &#8211; Alissa Rielly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lily (the maid)\/Molly (Horace&#8217;s neice) &#8211; Natasha Davidson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Madame Christine (Horace\u2019s distant relation) &#8211; Lesley Wheal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miss Elizabeth Wilkins (Horace\u2019s Aunt) &#8211; Anna Hammond<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gerald Williams &#8211; Richard Naylor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Necessary Woman <\/strong>was presented by special arrangement with Deborah Clair and Philippa Urquhart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is Sunday 2nd April 1911 \u2013 the night of the Census. Emily Davison, a Suffragette, is hiding in a cupboard in the crypt of the Palace of Westminster. Security is tight. There is a heavy police presence, but she is planning a daring act on Monday morning. Will she achieve her ambition or will Mary, a cleaner, give away her hiding place? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brand new play is based on a true event and was written by Deborah Clair and Philippa Urquhart to celebrate the 2018 suffrage centenary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How The Vote Was Won <\/strong>&#8211; In the days before radio, one effective way to get a message out and to have it discussed was to produce short plays that could be performed around the country, and so suffrage plays were born! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government has said that women do not need the vote, as they are all looked after by men! Horace Cole does not believe in Women\u2019s suffrage\u2026\u2026but who knows how a man\u2019s mind may be changed! This suffragette comedy was first performed on 13th April 1909 at the Royalty Theatre in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast of A Necessary Woman Cast of How The Vote Was Won A Necessary Woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}