Hindle Wakes By Stanley Houghton

Posted by Riklaa on December 14, 2012 at 11:06pm

Hindle Wakes
By Stanley Houghton
SNT 29.4.1978
Wilfred Pickles/Billie Whitela

128K

A production of the 1912 feminist classic. It's holiday week in the Lancashire town of Hindle, just before the First World War. Fanny Hawthorn, a spirited, determined mill girl, has just returned from a weekend in Blackpool with her friend Mary Hollins. At least that's what she tells her parents. In fact, she's been spending the weekend with Alan Jeffcote, a wealthy mill owner's son who is engaged to someone else. When Fanny's parents discover the truth, they set out to ensure that Alan will do the decent thing and marry her – only to discover that Fanny has her own ideas on the matter...

One of the first plays to have a working class female protagonist, Hindle Wakes was hugely controversial at the time of its writing.

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Paul Hudson January 2, 2013 at 4:16am

Unbelievable, you must have the map where X marks the spot.
- Riklaa > Paul Hudson January 2, 2013 at 2:39pm
abby December 15, 2012 at 9:52am

thank you!
Mike Hobart December 15, 2012 at 4:49am

I seem to have heard of this somewhere (maybe there's an old black-and-white movie). Look forward to listening to it.
- Riklaa > Mike Hobart December 15, 2012 at 5:11am
  
  There is an old movie, but it was made at a time that the sensitive issues were candy coated and simplified.
  
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick