[PDF] Jessica Swales Blue Stockings eBook

Author : Jessica Swale
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781848423299

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'Love or knowledge: which would you choose?' 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. 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. Blue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in August 2013, directed by John Dove.

Author : Jessica Swale
Publisher : Page to Stage study guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781848426238

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Highly accessible and uniquely authoritative, this is the indispensable guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Jessica Swale's hit play Blue Stockings .

Author : Jessica Swale
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Women in the theater
ISBN : 9781848425590

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London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain's most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the King. But at a time when women are second-class citizens, can her charm and spirit protect her from the dangers of the Court? Jessica Swale's exhilarating take on the heady world of Restoration theatre premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in September 2015, before transferring to the West End in February 2016, starring Gemma Arterton. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016.

Author : Elizabeth Freestone
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1636702147

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This book is a guide to One Hundred Plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis 100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire—to start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions. Above all, it is a call to arms—to step up, think big, and unleash theatre’s power to imagine a better future into being. Each play is explored with an essay illuminating key themes in climate issues: Resources, Energy, Migration, Responsibility, Fightback, and Hope. 100 Plays to Save the World is an empowering resource for theatre directors, producers, teachers, youth leaders, and writers looking for plays that speak to our present moment.

Author : Ben Travers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1783198834

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Sir Hector Benbow invites Cherry, a pretty shop assistant, to dine. Arriving home, he finds not only Cherry but Mrs Frush, to whom he has rented Thark, his niece’s Norfolk house. Mrs Frush complains Thark is haunted. To distract Lady Benbow's attention from Cherry, he suggests everyone go to Thark, which lives up to its spine-chilling reputation. A wild night, sinister butler and plethora of romantic mix-ups add to the lively proceedings.

Author : Jessica Swale
Publisher : Drama Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Acting games
ISBN : 9781848423466

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A new title in the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, from bestselling author Jessica Swale.

Author : Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350200271

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'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd Malcolm's speculative history lies in its passion and anger: it ends with a blazing address to the audience that is virtually a call to arms. It is throughout, however, a highly theatrical piece ... In rescuing Emilia from the shades, [the play] gives her dramatic life and polemical potency.' GUARDIAN The little we know of Emilia Bassano Lanier (1569 - 1645) is that she may have been the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets, mistress of Lord Chamberlain, one of the first English female poets to be published, a mother, teacher who founded a school for women, and radical feminist with North African ancestry. Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Lanier is therefore a fascinating subject for this speculative history. In telling her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm represents the stories of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history. Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 9780822216612

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THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to

Author : Joy Wilkinson
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2018
Category : England
ISBN : 9781848428065

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'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets, each finds an unexpected freedom in the boxing ring. As their lives begin to intertwine, their journey takes us through grand drawing rooms, bustling theatres and rowdy Southwark pubs, where the women fight inequality as well as each other. But with the final showdown approaching, only one can become the Lady Boxing Champion of the World... Joy Wilkinson's play The Sweet Science of Bruising is an epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism. It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in October 2018, in a production by Troupe.

Author : Jessica Swale
Publisher : Drama Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781848420106

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A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.