Diana Wichtel: Power and passion

Votes for Women demonstrated that what really happened was Mills & Boon on bicycles.

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7th July, 2012

Docudrama: history with all the silly bits left in. At least that’s how we do it here. It’s a way of showing that the past isn’t so much another country as rather like Jersey Shore in period costume. Waitangi: What Really Happened made an entertaining, quite subversive fist of the signing of our founding document. Now it’s the turn of women’s suffrage, with the Sunday Theatre offering Votes for Women: What Really Happened. We all know the story. On September 19, 1893, the suffragettes and their supporters prevailed, making New Zealand the first country ...

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