When equality is not the norm: Cork’s Studio 13 Production’s Blue Stockings

A new play shows how the suffragettes still have relevance for many women today, writes Colette Sheridan

ASUFFRAGETTE-THEMED play still has relevance today, says director Carol O’Donovan of Cork-based Studio 13 Productions. O’Donovan is directing Blue Stockings, written by Jessica Swale, which had its first professional performance at the Globe Theatre in London last year.

O’Donovan, a law graduate, says the play focuses on four women who are ‘outside’ what was considered normal for females at that time. “They want to be educated and recognised in the same way as their male counterparts. In a way, there’s a trade-off there. They either choose education, or love and marriage.”