Pioneer Players

Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League , under the direction of Edith Craig . It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players .

The pageant moved into the twenty-first century with a production by Anna Birch on 7 May 2011 at the conference that celebrated the Pioneer Players at the University of Hull .

It later became part of the Pioneer Players ' repertoire. Often presented as a curtain-raiser for the Pageant of Great Women, the piece reproduced and satirized anti-suffragist stereotypes of women.

In May 2011 a conference was held at the University of Hull to mark the centenary of the Pioneer Players .

EC founded the Pioneer Players , a women's theatre company comprised of amateurs and professionals, as a result of her work on Cicely Hamilton 's A Pageant of Great Women.

At the Ninth Annual General Meeting of The Pioneer Players (founded by EC ), members voted to dissolve the society because of financial problems and lack of support.

EC 's Pioneer Players company was revived to perform Susan Glaspell 's The Verge at London's Regent Theatre .

EC was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players , the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and...