The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic
The story of the suffragettes is a “metaphor for so many things going on right now” including gender inequality and the disenfranchisement of the poor, the singer Beverley Knight has said.
Knight is playing Emmeline Pankhurst in a new production at the Old Vic, which celebrates Pankhurst’s lesser-known daughter, Sylvia.
