Blue Stockings

Blue Stockings

Blue Stockings

Music composed, performed and recorded by Christopher Poffley for the play Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale (published by Nick Herne)

Opening Cambridge Station scene

Girton Theme

Spring Cycle

Wheels

Dr.Maudsley (Haydn)

Train journey

Victorian House

Library music – Mozart

Orchard music

Light Music by Dorn

Solemn ( based on Schubert)

Anger- distress

Cafe music by..

Hesitation- uncertainty

Can-Can by Offenbach

Haberdashery Shop

Courage- perseverance

Threat

Gaudeamus Igitur (“Let us rejoice, therefore”)

Destiny Waltz by…

Tess- “We’ll just carry on”

Historical end titles music (instrumental)

Historical end titles music (piano)

The Girton girls continued to match their male peers grade for grade.

Eventually the Senate succumbed to pressure and Cambridge awarded women the right to graduate.

It was fifty years later, in 1948