The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade
This performance runs from 18.00 – 19.30
Book your tickets at this link via Mayflower Studios
Physicist. Inventor. Activist. It’s time to meet the most significant British scientist you’ve never heard of.
Follow Hertha Ayrton and four other groundbreaking women as they study science at Girton College, Cambridge in the 1880s. When fire threatens their College, this unlikely crew starts the first all-female fire brigade. Struggling against the elements – and sexism – in Cambridge, they begin to realise that there’s a bigger battle they need to fight: for equal rights to education, work, and the vote. Even if it means starting a few fires themselves…
Inspired by real events, The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade is a fiery new musical about friendship, rebellion, and choosing action over silence.
This will be a concert performance of the show in development, created for the British Science Festival with support from MAST Mayflower Studios.
Written by Helen Arney, Brian Mackenwells and Jenni Pinnock, with support from Birmingham Hippodrome and Lincoln Arts Centre.
Please note that this event will involve discussions around institutionalised sexism and historical outdated views.
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