Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents

Blue Stockings

by Jessica Swale

Thursday, April 20, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)
Friday, April 21, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)
Saturday, April 22, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)
Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)
Friday, April 28, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)
Saturday, April 29, 2023 7:00pm (Doors: 6:30pm)

Approx. show length: 2 hours with intermission
Note: This show will be held at the Studio Theatre, just down the block on Hanover Street from the main entrance to the Wilson Center. Parking is free for this event.

Tickets are $15 including all fees/sales tax (discounts available for students and CFCC Faculty & Staff)

TA moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage.

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, 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.

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.

This program is brought to you by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Cape Fear Community College, not affiliated with Wilson Center Presents.

Each person, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

For questions about ADA and wheelchair-accessible seating, please call Ticket Central (910) 362-7999.

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