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...that began this week. If there is a television aesthetic, the BBC comes close to fulfilling it in Shoulder, a show that could have easily degenerated into agitprop; instead it is made a continually probing revelation of period and character. Led by a beautiful, red-haired widow, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes endured ridicule, torture and repeated jailings; several of them were killed. The angriest went underground, accelerating their demands with bombings and trashings. Perhaps fortunately for both sides, World War I broke out. Mrs. Pankhurst wasted no time in exchanging militancy...
Surprisingly, the activists were not exceptional women to begin with. Mrs. Pankhurst, it is true, came from the radical city of Manchester, where, as a child, she had demonstrated against slavery. But she and her daughters were exactly the kind of high-minded, humorless people who under other circumstances would have been pillars of empire. The movement transformed them: Emmeline (Sian Phillips) revealed a gift for fiery oratory and martyrdom; Christabel (Patricia Quinn) became a genius of strategy; Sylvia (Angela Down) provided the movement's heart and integrity...
Suffragette! A new musical about Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette, by two Law School students. Reportedly excellent. 8 o'clock. Agassiz...
Suffragette! The life and times of Emmeline Pankhurst, conceived, composed and concretized by Josh Rubins and George Birnbaum, both law students. The Independent gave it a rave. At Agassiz...
...structural problem which weakens and slows down the major part of the first act persists, though not so hardily, in the second. The movement of the plot sometimes hinges on tortured, obviously imposed transitions between scenes, as when a letter from Emmy Pankhurst to the Headmaster of the school where her son is dying becomes the device by which we learn of the animosity between Emmy's daughters. These vignettes provide the information which authenticates the story, but they are not effectively integrated. Only when the women dominate the stage do we feel the courage, determination, and will power which...