{"id":1738,"date":"2018-08-27T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:01:25","slug":"blue-stockings-march-21-march-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/blue-stockings-march-21-march-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Stockings (March 21 \u2013 March 30, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women\u2019s suffrage. Cambridge 1896, and Girton College, home to the country\u2019s first female students, is an object of annoyance and derision to the rest of the university. The year\u2019s intake of new women face economic difficult, the distractions of men, radical politics, and the jaw-dropping prejudice that blights every aspect of academy life. Meanwhile, there looms the prospect of a controversial vote to decide: should these \u2018blue stockings\u2019 be allowed to graduate? While skilfully invoking its Victorian setting, the play\u2019s themes of gender equality and the power of education are just as important today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cCracking\u2026 leaves you astonished at the prejudices these educational pioneers had to overcome.\u201d \u00a0~ Michael Billington, Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTouching and entertaining\u2026 Swale tells the story with both wit and a hint of righteous indignation.\u201d \u00a0~ Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women\u2019s suffrage. Cambridge 1896, and Girton College, home to the country\u2019s first female students, is an object of annoyance and derision to the rest of the university. The year\u2019s intake of new women face economic difficult, the distractions of men, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/blue-stockings-march-21-march-30-2019\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,61],"tags":[150,143],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-19","category-all","tag-by-jessical-swale","tag-english-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}