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Forgotten Woman A Tribute To Mary Seacole
Actress moved by Jamaican nurse's life.
Actress Cleo Sylvestre was so moved by the remarkable life of mixed-race Jamaican nurse Mary seacole that she wrote a play about it.
Of Trinidadian and English parentage herself, Cleo is no stranger to the stage and television screen having appeared in Grange Hill, Cathy Come Home and is currently on the Board of Quicksilver Theatre and joint Artistic Director of The Rosemary Branch Theatre a popular fringe venue in Islington.
Forgotten Woman is a one woman stage show about the life of the Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole. A healer, herbalist, hotelier, she travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean and treated British soldiers in the Crimean War. This forty minute show charts the journey of her extraordinary life and is suitable for both young and old.
2005 is the bicentennial year of Mary Seacole's birth and what better way to pay tribute to the woman they named the 'female Ulysses'.
Forgotten woman is showing from 2.30pm on October 15,16 October and November 5,6,12,13 at The Rosemary Branch, 2 Shepperton Road, London N13 DT, 24 hour Box Office 020-7704-6665
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