Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World: 1

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Join our inquisitive heroine Jade as she breaks away from her class to take a peek behind the scenes at the not yet open Gallery of Greatness in the local museum. Along her journey she is surprised to meet the original and incredible Wonder Women: Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Emmeline Pankhurst to name just a few.

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World

It’s loads of pressure to say you can change the world too, but if they leave the theatre feeling empowered to do something more with their talents, that’s a win,” Pankhurst says. Pankhurst with the cast of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (Photo: Glen Jevon) Processing your personal information is in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World legitimate interests The Café on the Park and our restaurant, The Brasserie, are fully wheelchair accessible and offer brilliant coffee and great dining experiences.We have a 'drop off' area in front of the Theatres, which you can access from the Broyle Road entrance. After a hugely successful autumn premiere, the inspiring girl power musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World will return in 2022 for an extensive UK tour. This empowering stage adaptation of suffragette descendent Kate Pankhurst's award-winning book is brought to life by an incredible all-female creative team. Obviously the book gives a good starter to go “oh that’s so and so and they did that” and you can then look into them further and it’s a good taster of everyone. It’s like a history lesson but not a boring history where you don’t want to pay attention. It’s bright and colourful and it does embrace you. Definitely. You can’t wing it because they are real people, and you don’t want to either because you want to respect these women what they did and do them justice so we did a lot of research. But what was really lovely and helpful, the young cast, the girls that play Jade, started a week before us and had a week of learning, and made big posters on each of the characters, made a timeline, pictures and everything. When the adult cast started, they gave us a presentation on everyone and it was really amazing to learn from their perspective on top of our own research. and but then to have that bonding experience with everyone and talk about these women collectively.

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

She says some older boys will assume her book isn’t aimed at them. “On the other hand, it’s exciting to be an author and illustrator at a time when we’re questioning why that is.”

Based on the award-winning children’s picture book by Kate Pankhurtst, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is a brand-new, pop musical from the producers of Six. Books like that and conversations like that didn’t exist when I was at school. I didn’t learn anything about what women did at school,” says Pankhurst. “Conversations I have with children are more direct and informed now.” The incredible cast has been announced for the UK tour of award-winning musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World. This empowering pop musical, from one of the producers of the worldwide sensation SIX, is based on the popular book by Suffragette relative Kate Pankhurst. Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World has delighted and inspired audiences across the UK, snowballing to become a hit favourite with a nation-wide following.

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World: 1

Rosa’s Lullaby” (sung by Renée Lamb as Rosa Parks) is all about dreaming of a better future; “Dream a world of colour where you never have to hide/No matter how impossible it seems/A better world for everyone begins with dreams.” Kate Pankhurst other books include Rebel Girls, Little Leaders, and This Little Trailblazer (Photo: Dave Benett/Getty) Want to transfer from a wheelchair into a theatre seat? Let us know in advance when you book and we can help you. Demand for the book – which has sold more than 100,000 copies, been translated into 15 languages and nominated by librarians throughout the UK for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2018 – took publisher Bloomsbury by surprise last year. “We knew that Fantastically Great Women was something special and timely, but we’ve been blown away by its success,” said Liz Skelly of Bloomsbury. “From comments on social media and mixed gender attendance at school and public events, it has been great to see that parents are buying the book for boys as well as girls.”Celebrated - and often forgotten - women from history are brought to life on stage, from Rosa Parks to Sacagawea, Amelia Earhart to Marie Curie, Mary Seacole to Frida Kahlo and Jane Austen, and Pankhurst's own relative Emmeline. Inquisitive heroine Jade breaks away from her class trip to the local museum to take a peek at the Gallery of Greatness. Audiences can join Jade in meeting these incredible and inspiring women from the past: from explorers and scientists to artists and secret agents, hear the stories of some of history's independent icons who really did change the world.