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...aren't very aware of that, though; the vehicle is for the women, and the women make it work. In particular Marianna Houston, who plays the lead, Emmeline Pankhurst, holds the story together with a strong voice, excellent stage presence, and a lot of guts. The show's first high coincides with Emmy's self-assertion after her husband's death, when she grabs the women's movement (and the audience) and assumes command. When Richard was alive, she says, he made all the speeches for women's rights; "but now I have to make the speeches. And strangely enough...
...pity is that one should wait forty-five minutes for that feeling. The prelude to the ignition of the women's movement, which covers the greater part of Act I, is slow and spotty: spanning an eighteen-year period in the lives of Richard and Emmy Pankhurst, it attempts to set the stage historically and emotionally for the arrival of women on the move. The trouble is, we're forced to tally up short scene after short scene, like votes in Parliament, to get the historical picture and see the Pankhursts...
Suffragette, at Agassiz Theater March 8-10, 15-17, and 22-24, is the story of Emmeline Pankhurst and her cause. It is also a creative, alternately witty and moving piece of musical theater. The first original musical sponsored by the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid in over 15 years, Suffragette is the creation of two Law School students, George Birnbaum and Josh Rubins. Birnbaum and Rubins wrote the script, lyrics, and score throughout the fall, and are currently producing and directing the play...
Suffragette adheres to the history of England's women's suffrage movement, but presents it through the prism of Emmy Pankhurst's life. She appears to provide the force and momentum which rallied England's women to the cause between...
Shortly after Richard Pankhurst's death, Emmy musters the confidence to take the leadership of the suffragette movement. In the climax of the first act and the point of departure for the play's real "story," she joins other women's leaders in the theme song "Suffragette" committing herself to persistent political protest regardless of the sacrifice involved. "My own mind never allowed me to see what I see now:" she tells them, "the picture of a woman--a complete, loving woman--who can stand not beside a man, but in his place...