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A play about sisters whose sacrifice divided a community.
Beck & Calling tells the story of Edith and Ellen Beck, suffragette sisters from Billingshurst.
On census night in 1911, women all over the country vanished for the vote. Suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, famously hid in a cupboard in the Houses of Parliament.
‘If we don’t count then we won’t be counted!’
Ted Gooda’s drama imagines what might have happened in rural Sussex at a time when great courage would have been needed; not just to break the law for a political belief, but to do so in a close-knit community where the ripples and repercussions of such an act of civil disobedience had far-reaching consequences and in a political climate where the staunchest defenders of the status quo seem to be those who are worst affected by it.
The one-act play was originally written and staged to commemorate the centenary celebrations of the Women’s Hall in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
A play about sisters whose sacrifice divided a community.
Beck & Calling tells the story of Edith and Ellen Beck, suffragette sisters from Billingshurst.
On census night in 1911, women all over the country vanished for the vote. Suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, famously hid in a cupboard in the Houses of Parliament.
‘If we don’t count then we won’t be counted!’
Ted Gooda’s drama imagines what might have happened in rural Sussex at a time when great courage would have been needed; not just to break the law for a political belief, but to do so in a close-knit community where the ripples and repercussions of such an act of civil disobedience had far-reaching consequences and in a political climate where the staunchest defenders of the status quo seem to be those who are worst affected by it.
The one-act play was originally written and staged to commemorate the centenary celebrations of the Women’s Hall in Billingshurst, West Sussex.