History on Stage | Deeds Not Words: Women’s Sunday and the Suffragette Movement

In the third of our special ’theatre from home’ productions, meet Kitty and Millicent, two women who took part in Women’s Sunday, a rally for women’s right to vote held at London’s Hyde Park in 1908. The stories of these two women from contrasting social backgrounds show how the demand for female suffrage united women in a common goal. Fought for through protests and marches in a time when civil disobedience was considered more shocking than it is today, the bravery of thousands of women would eventually win the vote — though it took much longer than they hoped. Written and performed by Time Will Tell Theatre, this video is an abridged version of a longer play originally commissioned by English Heritage in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of Women’s Sunday.