Blue Stockings

By Jessica Swale

Synopsis

1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a ‘blue stocking’ – an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriagable.

In Jessica Swale’s debut play, Blue Stockings, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdle in their way: the distractions of live, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. The play follows them over one tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education.

Cast

Tess Moffat – Sienna Taylor
Celia Willbond – Aoife Witham
Maeve Sullivan – Kitty-Gene Turner
Carolyn Addison – Beth Blundell
Will Bennett – Jacob Gower
Ralph Mayhew – Austin robson
Lloyd – Thomas Prebble
Holmes – Leo grayling
Edwards – Livvee-Rae Turner
Mrs Welsh – Coedy Roberts
Miss Blake – Bella Mould
Mr Banks – Tom O’reilly
Dr Maudsley/Anderson – Ben Evans
Collins/Mr Peck – Ben Cundill
Minnie/Lady/Trinity Maid – Emily Cook
Miss Bott/Mrs Lindley – Emily Adams
Radleigh/Librarian – Alex Cundill
Billy/Waiter – Alex Lloyd-Clarkson