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Leigh On Sea News: Kursall’s Princess Show – FROM one iconic theatre to another, a Leigh writer and performer is featuring an historical moment from the Kursall’s history in a new show to be performed on the main stage of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.
Kursall’s Princess Show - FROM one iconic theatre to another, a Leigh writer and performer is featuring an historical moment from the Kursall’s history in a new show to be performed on the main stage of Shakespeare's Globe theatre.
FROM one iconic theatre to another, a Leigh writer and performer is featuring an historical moment from the Kursall’s history in a new show to be performed on the main stage of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.
The play ‘Princess Essex‘ by Leigh-based Anne Odeke, tells the true story of the first black woman to ever enter a beauty pageant in the UK.
This happened in 1908, at the Kursaal: at the time, Europe’s biggest entertainment fun fair.
The fast-paced empowering comedy of Princess Essex is a combination of theatre and lecture, and captures the spirit of Edwardian seaside beauty pageants whilst opening up the life and times of this little-known Senegalese princess, through the lens of social history.
Ms Odeke says: “Shall I tell you a secret? Anyone can be a Queen, but a real Queen wears the crown, she doesn’t let the crown wear her.”
For tickets for the show, playing in September this year, visit: shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/princess-essex.
Picture: Leigh-based Anne Odeke as Princess Essex
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