Beverley Knight defends her casting as Emmeline Pankhurst by Damien Gayle

The singer is to play the suffragette leader at the Old Vic theatre in SeptemberBeverley Knight has hit out at critics of her casting as Emmeline Pankhurst in a new musical by pointing to the ubiquity of white actors playing characters of other ethnicities. Knight will play the leader of the British suffragette movement, with Genesis Lynea taking the titular role of Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline's daughter, in the play,…

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