Foundation Magazine 2021-2022 | Mount Kelly

PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS
DRAMA AT
THE COLLEGE
BLUE STOCKINGS
Having been postponed by
Covid-19, the main College
production of the year, Blue
Stockings, was at last brought to the
stage with a very young cast giving a
stellar performance. The play tells the
story of a small group of young women
at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1896,
and their campaign to overturn the
university’s ruling that though they may
study, women may not graduate. Faced
with the institutionalised misogyny of the
university, and the ridicule of their male
peers, their campaign was a central
moment in the campaign for equal rights.
Grace Cazzoli and Will Scruby took the
leads with tremendous assurance and
perfect timing, and were supported by
a similarly talented and committed cast.
Alfred Forer was alarmingly convincing as
the misogynist old professor, whilst Zac
Briggs put in a memorable performance
as an effortlessly entitled and snarlingly
unpleasant young male undergraduate.
Honey-Rose Boulting dominated the
stage as the worldly sophisticate, Holly
Tasker emanated earnest endeavour,
and Samara Chaudhry perfectly
captured the conflicted emotions of the
working-class scholarship girl.
This was the first dramatic production
at the College since lockdown two
years ago, and it was both a pleasure
and privilege to see the stage alive once
more. As a member of the audience was
overheard saying as she left Big School,
“I had no idea how much I’d missed the
school play, until it came back.”.
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