AGE OF AROUSAL
presented by STELLAR QUINES THEATRE COMPANY in co-production with THE ROYAL LYCEUM, EDINBURGH
by Linda Griffiths
wildly inspired by The Odd Woman by George Gissing
directed by Muriel Romanes
'Type damn you. Type! It's the only way to liberty.'
1885 - a time of great passion, great confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. Women are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire.
Determined to make women rich, ex-militant suffragette Mary Barfoot and her devoted protege and lover Rhoda enlist female students to master the new invention that will gain them freedom - the typewriter. Three spinster sisters are invited into the school to rescue them from poverty, setting in motion an odyssey of alcoholism, cross-dressing and sexual revolution.
Enter Everard Barfoot, Mary's cousin, an ex-doctor in his 30s about to embark on a life of leisure, and suddenly all the characters in this lavish sexy ensemble piece are erupting with discoveries, contradictions and epiphanies. Genre-busting, rule-bending and ambitiously original.
'Bursting with wit, intelligence and energy, Stellar Quines brings new vigour to Scottish theatre'. THE SCOTSMAN
