Name/TitleDVD: A Pageant of Great Women
About this objectDVD of the play 'A Pageant of Great Women' by Cicely Hamilton; a Fragments & Monuments film produced and directed by Anna Birch. The play was performed as part of 'Pageants and Pioneers' held in Middleton Hall, University of Hull, on Saturday 7th May 2011. The blurb on the back cover reads: "Fragments & Monuments re-make this great play for an international and local audience to celebrate 100 years of The Pioneer Players. A Pageant of Great Women, originally directed by Edith Craig, fits between Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues and Nic Green's Trilogy. Celebrate this wonderful historic moment and the achievements of women in a theatrical and entertaining 'pageant'. Women from history provide the evidence in a 'court case' to demonstrate the energy and commitment required to survive as a woman in today's world."
MakerBirch, Anna
Maker RoleFilm Producer and Director
MakerHamilton, Cicely
Maker RolePlaywright
Date Madec.2011
Period2010s
Medium and MaterialsInorganic, optical disc and plastic
MeasurementsH: 188 x W: 135 x D: 13 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsDrama, theatre
Subject and Association KeywordsPerformance art
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's suffrage, right to vote
Subject and Association KeywordsFilm-making
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://mayaproductions.co.uk/about-maya/anna-birch:
Anna combines her professional expertise as a theatre and film director with her scholarly research and activism. Moving beyond the theatre building, she has created a ‘living monuments’ performance and film methodology to both search out and reveal hidden and often neglected feminist biographies and her-stories. She researched her method through site-specific performance and films about the life of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) showing how this use of multimedia provides an essential link to the performativity of astonishing feminist achievements. Fragments & Monuments performance and film company launched a brand new Wollstonecraft Walks app which includes an archive of our performance, film, outdoor screenings, gallery installations and book publishing since 2000. The archive is all about our heroine and neighbour, the eighteenth-century human rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Hamilton:
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952) was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play How the Vote was Won, which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike. She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, A Pageant of Great Women (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women." In 1908 she and Bessie Hatton founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League. This grew to around 400 members, including Ivy Compton-Burnett, Sarah Grand, Violet Hunt, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Olive Schreiner, Evelyn Sharp, May Sinclair and Margaret L. Woods. It produced campaigning literature, written by Sinclair amongst others, and recruited many prominent male supporters.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeCD/DVD
Object numberGWL-2025-75-4-2
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved