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SUMMARY:Blue Stockings
DESCRIPTION:By Jessica Swale\n13-20 June 2026\nA moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.\n1896. 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 unmarriageable.\nIn 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 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.\nBlue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, in August 2013, directed by John Dove\nA moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.\nCast Photographs by Roger Donallon  @Oldham Camera Club\n							\n																		Charlotte Cochrane as Tess Moffat\n									\n							\n																		Imogen Turner as Celia Willbond\n									\n							\n																		Natalie Slater as Carolyn Addison\n									\n							\n																		Jack Plowright Ralph Mayhew\n									\n							\n																		Hugh Hamill as Lloyd\n									\n							\n																		James Riley as Holmes\n									\n							\n																		Cameron Kennedy as Edwards\n									\n							\n																		Jake Scott as Will Bennett\n									\n							\n																		Andrew Wilson as Professor Radleigh\n									\n							\n																		Duncan Ross as Professor Anderson\n									\n							\n																		Mark Hobson as Professor Collins\n									\n							\n																		Angela Walsh as Elizabeth Welsh\n									\n							\n																		Glen Fawcett as Mr Banks\n									\n							\n																		Jill Woods as Miss Blake\n									\n							\n																		Linzi Wicks as Mrs Lindley\n									\n							\n																		Lisa Kay as Miss Bott\n									\n															\n															\n															\n																\n															\nCast\n\n\n\n\nCharacter\n\n\nName\n\n\n\n\nTESS MOFFAT\n\n\nCharlotte Cochrane\n\n\n\n\nCELIA WILLBOND\n\n\nImogen Turner\n\n\n\n\nCAROLYN ADDISON\n\n\nNatalie Slater\n\n\n\n\nMAEVE SULLIVAN\n\n\nKatelyn Mackenzie-Pilot\n\n\n\n\nRALPH MAYHEW\n\n\nJack Plowright\n\n\n\n\nLLOYD\n\n\nHugh Hamill\n\n\n\n\nHOLMES\n\n\nJames Riley\n\n\n\n\nEDWARDS\n\n\nCameron Kennedy\n\n\n\n\nWILL BENNETT\n\n\nJake Scott\n\n\n\n\nELIZABEYTH WELSH\n\n\nAngela Walsh\n\n\n\n\nDR MAUDSLEY\n\n\nAndrew Wilson\n\n\n\n\nMR BANKS\n\n\nGlen Fawcett\n\n\n\n\nMISS BLAKE\n\n\nJill Woods\n\n\n\n\nPROFESSOR COLLINS\n\n\nMark Hobson\n\n\n\n\nPROFESSOR ANDERSON\n\n\nDuncan Ross\n\n\n\n\nPROFESSOR RADLEIGH\n\n\nAndrew Wilson\n\n\n\n\nMINNIE\n\n\nAlayne Whitworth\n\n\n\n\nMR PECK\n\n\nDuncan Ross\n\n\n\n\nMISS BOTT\n\n\nLisa Kay\n\n\n\n\nBILLY SULLIVAN\n\n\nDuncan Ross\n\n\n\n\nMRS LINDLEY\n\n\nLinzi Wicks\n\n\n\n\nLIBRARIAN, WAITER\n\n\nDuncan Ross\n\n\n\n\nLADY IN CAFE\n\n\nAlayne Whitworth\n\n\n\n\nCrew\n\n\n\n\nDIRECTOR\n\n\nSue Borg\n\n\n\n\nSTAGE MANAGER\n\n\nCath Bradbury\n\n\n\n\nPROMPT\n\n\nAnne Wright\n\n\n\n\nSOUND\n\n\nPatrick Warrington\n\n\n\n\nLIGHTING\n\n\nDavid Plowright\n\n\n\n\nPROPS\n\n\nJo Taylor, Cath Bradbury\n\n\n\n\nMUSICAL DIRECTOR\n\n\nIan F Ball\n\n\n\n\nCOSTUME\n\n\nVerity and team\n\n\n\n\nSET BUILDING\n\n\nMike Rea\n\n\n\n\nSET PAINTINGPUBLICITY\n\n\nJohn and FrankDavid Ebden \n\n\n\n\n																\n															\n															\n
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