| 20040429 | By Jerome Vincent In 1906, Dorothy Levitt was described as "the fastest girl on Earth" when she drove a six-cylinder Napier motorcar at 91 miles per hour in a speed trial in BLACKPOOL.|She became the leading exponent of a woman's "right to motor" and in 1909 published The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Hand Book for Women Who Motor or Want to Motor, based on her newspaper column in the Daily Graphic.|The play charts Dorothy's rise to fame as a champion of the motorcar, and the disintegration of her personal and professional relationship with Selwyn Edge - a fellow pioneer, and manufacturer - who first introduces her to the thrills of motoring, and who grooms her for success on the race track.|But the constant pressure to appear in public and to publicise Edge's cars in both her newspaper columns and her popular public lectures starts to take its toll.|During the course of the action we hear extracts from Dorothy's Chatty Little Hand Book.|Rachel Atkins....Dorothy Levitt Kim Wall....Selwyn Edge.|Other parts are played by John Evitts, David Timson, Peter Mair and Clare Corbett. |
