Sylvia

Ages: 10+

Opened: February 14, 2023
Closing: April 01, 2023

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'Be the change that you want to see

Be the change for you and me’

This revolutionary story celebrates the life of Sylvia Pankhurst – feminist, activist, pacifist, socialist, rebel – the lesser-known Pankhurst at the heart of the Suffragette movement, who changed the lives of working women and men across the world.

Following its 2018 run as a work-in-progress, Kate Prince’s Sylvia is back where it all began for its world premiere, uniting dance, hip hop, funk and soul to shine a light on a remarkable moment in history, with original music by Josh Cohen and DJ Walde.

Beverley Knight will not perform on:

Mon 27–Tue 28 Feb

Mon 6–Tue 7 Mar

Mon 13–Tue 14 Mar

All performances from Mon 20–Tue 28 Mar

Access Performances

Audio Described: Thu 9 Mar 7.30pm

Captioned: Fri 3 Mar 7:30pm

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Beverley Knight leads an inspiring but overstuffed hip-hop Suffragette musical

6 / 10

Sylvia also zips through the years, giving us little time to really dig into the lead characters’ lives and motivations. I wished we could have seen the Pankhursts interacting as a family, rather than just spouting slogans at one another, so we could feel the weight of what is sacrificed here – or that Christabel’s queerness could be characterised as more than just a potential PR problem.

Breathless hip-hop history of the suffragette movement is broad, but at times exhilarating

6 / 10

Prince’s motormouth lyrics are adroitly crammed with intricate stacked rhymes, as the performers undulate, grind and pop their way through a whistle-stop tour of the Sylvia Pankhurst story. The obvious comparison is with mighty musical blockbuster Hamilton. But with its cartoonish tone and fist-pumping, feminist-lite energy, the show is a closer sister to Six, which puts a similar girl-power gloss on the wives of Henry VIII. Nuance is sacrificed to high-voltage freneticism. Still, it’s rambunctious fun – and at its best, it captures enough of the euphoric passion of protest to make you, too, want to take to the streets.