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Beverley Knight: Suffragettes' struggle still relevant today by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic The story of the suffragettes is a "metaphor for so many things going on right now" including gender inequality and the disenfranchisement of the poor, the singer Beverley Knight has said. Knight is playing Emmeline Pankhurst in a new production at the Old Vic, which celebrates Pankhurst's lesser-known daughter, Sylvia. Con…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM on October 6, 2022

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