A “moving, comical and eye-opening” story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the backdrop of women’s suffrage is opening at the Altrincham Garrick next week.
Blue Stockings, written by Jessica Swale and directed by Su Mowat, opens on Monday 3rd October and runs to Saturday 8th October.
Tickets are available here now.
It’s set in 1896 at 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 unmarriable.
In Swale’s play, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, 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.
Blue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, in August 2013. It has an age guidance of 12+.
To book tickets, call 0161 928 1677 or visit the website here.
