What Women Want
Citadel Arts Group/Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
Theatrically good, subjectively biased, ‘What Women Want’ portrays women’s fight to achieve suffrage through rose-tinted glasses. The acting was superb, with the cast convincingly taking on multiple roles, but the play needed to be slicker and the technological aspects, while good, experienced more than a few hiccups. However, the content of the production was extremely prejudicial; all men were idiots or bigots, unless they supported the cause so portrayed as compassionate and hard- working. The terrorist acts of the suffragettes were skimmed over in favour of portraying the ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ and not enough emphasis was brought on the brave endeavours of suffragists. Furthermore, unconnected female martyrs were projected at the end, which took the little integrity it had left from the play.
Diverse Attractions, 17 - 22 Aug, 5.30pm, £9.00 (£7.00), fpp 238
tw rating: 2/5
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