New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeTheresa Heskins expertly blends the political and the personal in her version of Elizabeth Robins's 1907 dramaLights go up on the dispatch boxes and mace at the centre of the House of Commons. Disembodied male voices debate the resolution proposed by Labour MP Keir Hardie. Around the upper tier of the auditorium stand individual women, looking and listening intently. Hardie argues that to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on March 18, 2018