With England's theatres under lockdown, our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a play about 1940s Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson The irony of "forgotten women of history" is invariably that the facts of their lives turn out to be acutely memorable. When I began researching the life of Ellen Wilkinson (following a commission from Lorne Campbell, then artistic director of Northern Stage) the more …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM on November 9, 2020