Blue Stockings

By Jessica Swale

‘Love or knowledge: which would you choose?’

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, while the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a ‘blue stocking’ – an unnatural, educated woman.Tess and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them.

Blue Stockings is the empowering and eye-opening story of four young women fighting to change the future of education.

Performed by Rose Bruford South West (formerly ALRA) students.