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Historia presents:
THE SOUND
OF BREAKING GLASS
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Dawn Long
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By Sally Sheringham
Directed by Kate Glover
A witty new
play which tells the story of the Suffragette movement through
the ups and downs of one family. The metamorphosis of Mrs Emma
Marland from docile wife to 'hooliganess'
and hunger striker, with its inevitable effects on her marriage,
gives way to a darker series of events. Emily Davison throws
herself in front of the King’s Horse as the lights begin to go
out all overEurope. How will the
Marland family cope in this new world?
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Earlier Historia
Productions include:
A Passionate
Englishman based on the life of William Penn and set in the form of a
dialogue between Penn and Samuel Pepys.
An African's Blood,
chronicling the epic journey through Parliament of Wilberforce's law to end the
slave trade, and touching on some chilling contemporary parallels.
Judenfrei, A touching
play about the sufferings of two Jewish lawyers and their families in 1938
Berlin.
Other adaptations from the works of Fanny
Burney and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Updated
12 October 2012