Blue Stockings
by Jessica Swale
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"Love or knowledge: which would you choose?"
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A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage.
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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 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, directed by John Dove.