Performance: Red Flag over Bermondsey – The Ada Salter Story

This performance explores both the private and the public lives of Ada Salter from 1909 until 1922, interwoven with her beloved Ira Sankey hymns and her passion for Handel.

2pm, Saturday 30th May, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Ada Salter was a true radical, campaigner for equal rights, socialist, republican, pacifist, environmentalist, trade union activist and a leading light in the transformation of the Bermondsey slums in the early part of the twentieth century. Born into Methodism, she became a Quaker in 1914. She and her GP husband, Alfred Salter dedicated their lives to the people of Bermondsey, living and working right in the heart of their community-and having to accept the tragic consequences of their choice. Ada broke through the glass ceiling of her time, becoming both the first woman councillor in London and then the first woman mayor.

Red Flag over Bermondsey is written and performed by Lynn Morris and directed by Dave Morris.

The performance will last for 65 minutes without interval and takes place from 2.30pm – 4pm in the AV Room at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (access through Gas Hall on Edmund Street).

Admission is FREE but booking is required.

To book phone 0121 348 8038 or book online.

Queries to wwone.ceq@btinternet.com

Lynn and Dave Morris are Journeymen Theatre and are committed to performing their work in any venue, theatre or non-theatre.