Blue Stockings

23 - 29 Mar

by Jessica Swale

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Blue Stockings

23 - 29 Mar

Directed by Joanna Bowman
Set Design by Cory Shipp
Costume Design by Anna Kelsey
Lighting Design by Berta Pibernat Trias

Set in 1896 at a Cambridge college, the title refers to the derogatory term for female intellectuals and the campaign for women to be given a formal degree qualification alongside their male colleagues. Touching the feminist ideals of the late nineteenth-century with parallels of today.

This amateur production is staged under special licence from Nick Hern Books.

Booking Info

Dates

This production is double cast
Thu 23 Mar, 7:30pm – Trains Cast

Fri 24 Mar, 7:30pm – Bicycles Cast
Sat 25 Mar, 2:30pm – Bicycles Cast

Sat 25 Mar, 7:30pm – Trains Cast

Mon 27 Mar, 7:30pm – Bicycles Cast

Tue 28 Mar, 7:30pm – Trains Cast

Wed 29 Mar, 2:30pm – Trains Cast

Wed 29 Mar, 7:30pm – Bicycles Cast

Prices
Full Price £18
Concession (Under 18/Student/Over 65) £12
Southwark Presents Cardholder £10
Venue

The Mack, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201
Our box office hours are currently Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Online booking is 24 hours, but phone and in-person bookings should be made within these times. Tickets are booked subject to Mountview's terms and conditions. 

Industry Bookings

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford - neilrutherford@mountview.org.uk

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Alhena Al-Ali Douglas
(she/her)

Playing:
Ivy

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Toby Beynon
(he/him)

Playing:
Jacob

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Jonny Grogan
(he/him)

Playing:
Henry

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Annabel Harb
(she/her)

Playing:
Naomi

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George Hawkins
(he/him)

Playing:
Harry

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Corinna Herriot
(she/her)

Playing:
Justine

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Léona McLoughlin
(she/her)

Playing:
Kat

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Mira Morrison
(she/her)

Playing:
Bee

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Sofia Newton Urlich
(she/her)

Playing:
Mira

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Emily O’Sullivan
(she/her)

Playing:
Lola

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Adam Owers
(he/him)

Playing:
McFadden

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Millie Pender
(she/her)

Playing:
Ellie

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Beatrice Su
(she/her)

Playing:
Agatha

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Erica Tavares-Kouassi
(she/her)

Playing:
Camille

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Harry J Taylor

Playing:
George

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Amrik Tumber
(he/him)

Playing:
Adil

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Lydia Whitehead
(she/her)

Playing:
Molly

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Joanna Bowman

Director

Joanna is a theatre director and dramaturg living in Glasgow.

She is Associate Director of the Tron Theatre, a Creative Associate of Vanishing Point, and a National Theatre Connections Mentor Director.

She has worked for organisations including the National Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, Chichester Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, Citizens Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall, Mahogany Opera, Perth Theatre, Òran Mór, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Dundee Rep.

Jackie Snow

Movement Director

Jackie trained at London College of Dance and Drama and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Performance: Gymnastic Dance Theatre Company.

Teaching: G.S.M.D, Head of Movement RADA, Senior Lecturer M.ST (MMU), BADA, LAMDA, Drama Centre, Rose Bruford, Mountview, Drama Academies USA and China.

Theatre: Master of Movement, Shakespeare’s Globe (Mark Rylance), Regents Park Open Air, Wyndham’s, Old Vic, RSC, National, Nottingham Playhouse, Northcott, Polka and Watermill.

Film and TV: The Lost Prince (Stephen Poliakov), The New World (Terence Malik), Quills, Marie Antoinette, All Forgotten.

Publication: Movement Training for Actors, Methuen Drama.

Cory Shipp

Set and Costume Designer

Credits in Theatre as Designer includes: The Mikvah Project (Orange Tree Theatre), Hansel & Gretel (Chiswick Playhouse), Cyrano de Bergerac, Easy Virtue (The Watermill Theatre), Another Planet (The Gramophones Theatre Company), Justice in a Day (Theatr Clwyd), Hags (Scratchworks Theatre Company), Cinderella (The Barn Theatre), Pilgrims (Guildhall), Spring Awakening, Merrily We Roll Along, Spongebob the Musical, Company (Leeds Conservatoire), Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse), Deffro’r Gwanywn (Y Cwmni), Glacier (Old Fire Station), The EU Killed My Dad (Jermyn Street Theatre), The Book of Eternity (Northern Opera); As Costume Designer includes: Unfortunate: A Musical Parody (Fat Rascal Theatre Company/Underbelly Festival);

As Set Designer includes: Wipe These Tears (Bezna Theatre Company), Justice in a Day (Theatr Clwyd), The Lion, the B!tch and the Wardrobe (Wales Millennium Centre).

For more credits and images: coryshippdesign.com

Anna Kelsey

Set & Costume Designer

Anna trained at RWCMD.

She completed a year with the RSC as Assistant Designer 2018-19, is an associate artist at The Watermill Theatre and was shortlisted for the JMK 2023.

Selected design credits include: Shakespeare’s R&J (Reading Rep), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Sorcerers Apprentice, Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse), The Wicker Husband, Under Milk Wood, Our Town (Watermill), Blue Stockings (Mountview), Ring Ring, Dance Nation (Omnibus), If.Destroyed.Still.True (Hope).

Assistant/Associate credits include: The Flying Dutchman (Opera Up Close), Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort of) (Minack), Purple Snowflake and Titty Wanks (Royal Court), The Boy in the Dress, Measure for Measure, Venice Preserved, Kunene and the King (RSC).

Berta Pibernat Trias

Lighting Designer

Berta, Mountview’s Senior Lighting Tutor, graduated in MA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins, UAL.

She worked at Trinity Laban for over two years where she collaborated with choreographers such as Debbie Purtil, William Aichison and Eleven Farrer House.

Berta previously worked in the US, with Tony Award-winning lighting designer Christopher Akerlind, Tony nominee Barbara Damashek and Delia Mac Dougall in several theatre productions.

Her credits include: Exposure (tour), BOX (Inverted Theatre tour), The Brownie Club (Jacksons Lane), Withered Optimism and Splat (OftheJackle tour), Becoming Berenice (2018, Voilà Festival), MAPS (Pivot Dance 2017).

Sonum Batra

Sound Designer

Sonum is a Yorkshire-based musical director, composer and sound designer.

Recent credits as Composer and Sound Designer include: Lumbejills (Capitol Theatre, upcoming), Blue Stockings (Mountview), Ladies Unleashed (Hull Truck), Animalis Carnivale (Roehampton University), Favour (Bush Theatre), Red Sky at Night (Mikron Theatre), Arabian Nights (Hoxton Hall), Relativity (Finborough Theatre), Not the End of the World (Edinburgh Fringe), Rare Dreams and Persona both for Youth Music Theatre UK and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatre Works).

Blue Stockings Creatives

Fight Choreographer
Hadley Smith (he/him)

Intimacy Director
Ruth Naylor-Smith (she/her)

Voice Coach
Hannah Benjamin (she/her)

Assistant Director
Elissa Smith* (she/her)
MA Theatre Directing student

Ptaszynski Producer
Jac O’Kody (she/her)

Blue Stockings Crew

Production Manager
Cory Duffill (he/him)

Deputy Production Manager
Laura Mann (she/her)

Costume Supervisor
Alice Basaral (she/her)

Stage Manager
Jonathan Scouse † (he/him)

Deputy Stage Manager
Sam Harcourt † (he/him)

Assistant Stage Manager / Fit-Up Crew
Leah Bainbridge † (she/her)
Charlie Soper † (he/him)

Assistant Stage Manager
Carol Mannix † (she/her)
Production Electrician
Chloe Palmer † (she/her)
Production Sound Engineer
Alec Whyborn † (he/him)
Lighting Programmer
Tahleesha Stone † (she/her)
LX 1
Ryan Littler † (he/him)

LX 2
Jack Goodwin † (he/him)

LX 3
Ben Edwards † (he/him)

Lead Carpenter
David Larking (he/him)

Lead Scenic Artist
Steven Peters (he/him)
Scenic Artists / Prop Makers
Will Coyne ‡
Ella Gale ‡
Amy Kennington ‡
Emily Sharp ‡
Charlotte Wells-Barbier ‡

† FdA/BA/PG Dip Theatre Production Arts Student
‡ FdA/BA Scenic Art and Prop Making Student