Show of Strength Theatre Company presents OUTRAGE! Or The Ghost of Mabel Hunt
Saturday 26 Oct 4pm and Sunday 27 Oct 3pm (same performance each day)
Clevedon Community Bandstand, Elton Road, BS21 7EH [ Map ]
Show of Strength Theatre Company presents
OUTRAGE! Or The Ghost of Mabel Hunt
Promenade Performance, Clevedon Seafront, near the Bandstand**
Free event (same performance on each day)
4pm Saturday 26 October
3pm Sunday 27 October
Booking recommended and appreciated. The performance moves from location to location along Clevedon seafront, and includes a footpath walk to St Andrew's Church, so dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear.
Out of the blue, one Sunday morning in spring 1914, Clevedon woke up to something very unexpected. Votes for Women had been on the agenda for 50 years with suffrage societies everywhere - including Clevedon. But promises had come to nothing and patience was running thin. And on this Sunday morning the evidence of this impatience was plain for all to see. But what happened? And who was responsible?
Clevedon Litfest uncovered a fascinating piece of the town's history and invited Bristol's Show Of Strength Theatre Company to collaborate on an outdoor performance telling this forgotten story – in the place where it actually happened.
Five Bristol and Somerset based actors – plus surprises – play a range of real and fictional Clevedon characters including real suffragette Mabel Hunt.
Top image - photograph by Zuleika Henry
Image © 2024 Linda Meaton
