BLUE STOCKINGS by Jessica Swale

Directed by Spenser Davis

Promethean’s Season 14 kicks off with the Chicago premiere of Blue Stockings, 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. Cambridge 1896, and Girton College, home to the country’s first female students, is an object of annoyance and derision to the rest of the university. The year’s intake of new women face economic difficulty, the distractions of men and radical politics, and the jaw-dropping prejudice that blights every aspect of academic life. Meanwhile, there looms the prospect of a controversial vote to decide if these ‘blue stockings’ should be allowed to graduate. Written by Jessica Swale. Performances of Blue Stockings will take place at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.

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Creatives & Crew

Director  –  Spenser Davis
Stage Manager – Alexa Berkowitz*
Assistant Director – Angela Forshee
Props Designer –  Devon Green
Dialect Coach – Carrie Hardin
Sound Designer – Tony Ingram
Photography – Tom McGrath**
Set Designer – Therese Ritchie
Lighting Designer – Claire Sangster
Costume Designer –  Rachel Sypniewski
Fight Choreographer – Maureen Yasko
Understudy – John Blick
Understudy – Michael Brigance