AN original play inspired by the life of a passionate suffragette will be shown at The Forum in Northallerton next month.
Presented by award-winning company Certain Curtain Theatre, ‘Woman on Fire’ recounts the turbulent life and times of Mrs Edith Rigby.
She was a mild-mannered doctor’s wife with a secret identity – that of arsonist, bomber and jujitsu-trained militant suffragette.
Mrs Rigby was jailed six times and went on hunger strike to the point of starvation.
When released from prison, she went toe-to-toe in ferocious pitched battles with the police.
Writer and director John Woudberg said: “I wanted to tell the story of the UK Suffrage cause through an unsung suffragette’s eyes - to take the audience on her journey and let them ask themselves how far they might go for something they believe in?”
The play will be at The Forum on Sunday May, 6 at 7.30pm with an optional after show discussion.
Tickets are £10 from forumnorthallerton.savoysystems.co.uk
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