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‘You've got to stand up and keep shouting’
Mikron Theatre's VASHTI MACLACHAN and MARIANNE McNAMARA tell Susan Darlington what the message of the company's play marking the suffragette centenary is all about
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“EQUALITY,” replies Vashti Maclachlan, when asked what message she’d like the audience to take away from her new play for Mikron Theatre. “We’re still not there yet and so you’ve got to stand up and keep shouting.”
That message comes across strongly in political satire Revolting Women, which marks the 100th anniversary of female suffrage. Told from the perspective of Sylvia, the less celebrated and most socialist Pankhurst, it makes it clear that only some women got the vote in 1918.
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