Friends of Alice Wheeldon

This play re-enacts the 1917 trial and imprisonment of Alice Wheeldon, the renowned suffragist, for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced by an extended essay ''Rebel Networks in the First World War''.

With claustrophobia and anger, the play recounts how Wheeldon''s involvement in socialism, suffragism and the anti-war movement did not endear he...