BOOKING NOW: MUST SEE EVENT
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
SJT at 7.30pm on March 24. Tickets: box office on 01723 370541 or online via www.sjt.uk.com
International bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE will be bringing her first ever theatre tour, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this month.
Audiences can expect an evening of entertainment which is part detective story, part love letter about how history is made, part celebration of extraordinary, brilliant trailblazing and inspirational women throughout history. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World will surprise, challenge and perhaps even encourage some to undertake a little family history of their own…
With storytelling, music and images, Kate will both share the story of how she tracked down her long-forgotten relative, Lily Watson (in whose literary footsteps she is walking) at the same time as celebrating hundreds of other women from history whose names deserve to be better known.
Audiences will meet the Mothers of Invention
and Pirate Queens, the unsung heroines of medicine and those who dazzled on the screen, the stage and in the stadium, and those who fought for what they believed and those who reached for the stars.
The narrative travels the world and through time, from Ancient Egypt to 21st-century Britain, from America to South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, from Chile and Mexico to Russia and Germany, from Pakistan and Uganda to Azerbaijan and Iceland.
The stories will feature a diverse cast of characters, some unknown and some legendary; from the 13th century Mongolian warrior princess Khutulan to American conservationist Rachel Carson; from Tibetan Buddhist nun and freedom fighter Ani Pachen to the Greek naval commander Laskarina Bouboulina; from freedom rider Pauli Murray to Josephine Cochran, inventor of the dishwasher; from Chinese feminist poet Ding Ling to the Tasmanian leader Truganini; from the first recorded author in history Enheduanna to the pioneering 19th century female doctors known as the Edinburgh Seven, from the extraordinary First World War footballing legend Lily Parr to Canadian adventurer and performer, Aloha Wanderwell.