Tea With Mrs Pankhurst for Secondary Schools
We have now successfully adapted our play ‘Tea With Mrs Pankhurst’ for schools. It needed only small alteration and it has had a great response from young people everywhere it has gone.
The Play
Emmeline Pankhurst and Selina Cooper took tea together many times. Yet these two suffrage leaders had not only different approaches to gaining the vote, but also different motives.
Exploring the suffrage movement and the conflicts within it, this fast paced production gives great insight into Edwardian Britain and beyond. It also shows the impact that war had upon the suffrage movement and begs the questions ‘ who won the vote?’
The Curriculum
Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 and S3-6, Tea With Mrs Pankhurst incorporates both History and Citizenship. It encourages debate and discussion and encourages young people to respect the right to vote. It also demonstrates the different methods employed by suffragists and suffragettes and asks important questions about the impact of the franchise movement upon society. The play is available with a full teachers pack and an after-show character ‘hot-seating’ session as well as actor discussion with the audience.
With a cast of four professional actors playing a whole host of colourful characters, Tea With Mrs Pankhurst brings the suffrage campaign to life and shows how this historic movement is still relevant today.
“Featuring sophisticated agitprop, friendly audience participation and some lovely moments of wit, the play’s historical content unfolds in a series of short episodes, beautifully enacted by the cast” The Stage & Television Today, review of Tea with Mrs Pankhurst.
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