The heroines explored by Heroica Theatre Company to date represent seven extraordinary women dating from 1456 – 1992. All playscripts are available for download at £10 or £5 each (see below).
The plays provide a valuable educational reference for school or adult learning programmes concerned with women’s history. The texts can be used for full scale productions or for written responses. Extension activities around the texts and eras covered are available on application to the company.
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A Pearl in the Sands
A Pearl in the Sands
Margaret Fell (1614- 1702) of Swarthmoor Hall in Furness, Cumbria came young in her married life to another ‘marriage’ – with early Quakerism, as expounded by the charismatic George Fox. Whilst her own husband Thomas Fell supported her almost from the outset, she struggled to persuade the authorities – and, most dismayingly, her own son – of the goodness of her new faith. She was imprisoned several times for long spells and she made endless petitions – to whichever new king would hear her – for the release of Quaker friends from prisons and for the freedom to worship in their own homes.
Read an extract here.