Eleanor – the Space @ Niddry Street
Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, was a socialist and feminist activist. But this play concentrates mainly on her relationships with her lover and friends.
All of the characters in this well written drama by Agnes Perry-Robinson were real people, intellectuals who lived in late nineteen century England.
The play is based on research. But Perry-Robinsion has used her imagination to recreate some of the interactions between Eleanor and her friends.
We see laughter-filled soirées full of stimulating conversations, charades and acting. The group shares a love of Shakespeare and even play the mechanicals performing ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. It’s all great fun - at first.
Eleanor (nicknamed ‘Tussy’) has a particularly close friendship with ...