You're between two fires... They're very warm sometimes. Noah
Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn
between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on
the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his
colleagues on the other. A middle-aged married man; he is also in
love with the young socialist suffragette Freda McLaird. Things
look bleak for the cause and the man. Still Noah - inspired by his
soulmate - has time for hope and beauty. He looks forward to a time
when the movement will be stronger. Sylvia Pankhurst wrote this
previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the
infamous HMP Holloway in 1920/21. Deprived of writing materials in
solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this
dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie -
Labour's founding leader - with a contraband pencil on prison issue
toilet paper. It would be nearly a hundred years before Pankhurst's
biographer Rachel Holmes would discover the play via painstaking
analysis of the delicate fragments jumbled into brown envelopes in
the archives of the British Library. Holmes' arrangement of the
incomplete text brings the poignant story to life in this
startlingly topical drama that speaks directly to our own times.
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