This is a comprehension linked to Emmeline Pankhurst on her mission to get women the rights to vote from 1903-1928.

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Aside from Jade, who is the main lead in the show, there are four adult actors in the company and we all multi-role, so I play Emmeline Pankhurst, Agent Fifi and Jade’s teacher Miss Johnson. The other women featured are Sacagawea, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Mary Seacole, Gertrude Ederle, Jane Austen, Mary Anning, Anne Frank.We have five wheelchair spaces: Four on the side aisles of rows F&H and one on the centre aisle of row J. This ‘pop-fuelled, upbeat’ (The Times) hit musical, based on the book by Suffragette relative Kate Pankhurst and adapted by Chris Bush ( Standing at the Sky’s Edge), comes from one of the producers of SIX. It’s been very interesting for me, working as a different kind of storyteller, to see how the whole process works… It’s certainly a show that has helped me further channel those distant Emmeline Pankhurst vibes,” says the author, from her illustration studio in an old mill in Leeds.

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High-voltage history … (from left) Jade Kennedy, Christina Modestou, Kirstie Skivington and Renee Lamb in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World. Photograph: Pamela Raith Touch Tours are free to all access members and companions and can be booked by phoning our Box Office on 02380 711833. This is a true or false activity linked to Mary Anning in the book Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World. Why do you think it is important to bring women’s history to the theatre and how do you think this show helps?

Kate Pankhurst is part of People Who Changed the World at the Southbank Centre’s Imagine Children’s Festival on 13 February . Pankhurst’s books are now part of a canon that teaches young people about exemplary real women from history and the modern day, alongside Rebel Girls, Little People, Big Dreams, Little Leaders, This Little Trailblazer and countless more. A focus on early prejudice towards Ella Fitzgerald and her unlikely friendship between Marilyn Monroe. The illustrations' glorious ice-cream colours and bold jazzy shapes ooze retro glamour in this story of two incredible women.