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✮✮✮✮ ‘Blue Stockings’ touches the audience without preaching. Directed by Madeleine Perham, it is set in 1897 when Cambridge University was set to vote whether the students of Girton College, a girl’s college in Cambridge, had the right to graduate. It is a slice of life play minus the hysterics historical dramas bring. You find […]
Continue ReadingThe presence of women at university is taken so much for granted today that it’s astonishing to consider how, little more than a hundred years ago, Cambridge University was voting on whether to allow women to graduate with degrees. This vote is the fulcrum of Blue Stockings – the campaign for women’s right to […]
Continue ReadingAccording to the films Shakespeare in Love and Anonymous, the Globe’s first audiences would freely cheer, boo and hiss at the stage as though the characters and events they watched were real. Almost five hundred years later, the misogynistic rants that appear in Blue Stockings were met by boos, hisses and gasps – and the women’s […]
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