What Every Girl Should Know
Theatre, Dance, Comedy

What Every Girl Should Know

NSW

Tickets $26.00

25 - 28 Sep | 1 hour 35 minutes Flight Path Theatre
SHOW IS RATED: M

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About this event
In a Catholic reformatory in 1914, four teen girls undergo a profound conversion experience when they are exposed to birth control materials distributed by women's rights activist, Margaret Sangar.

In a Catholic reformatory in 1914, three teenage girls (Anne, Theresa, and Lucy) pass the time with games of truth or dare and playful rituals, though they’re innocent of the “sinful” nature of their act. Then a new girl, Joan, shows up, bearing illegal contraband: birth control materials distributed by the women’s-rights activist Margaret Sanger (The founder of Planned Parenthood). Thus begins a the decent into a fantasy world created in the four walls of their bedroom.

The girls begin reading the material and jokingly pretend to venerate Sanger as a saint, but unexpectedly undergo a profound conversion experience. They begin to follow Sanger’s life in the newspaper and develop a 'game' that blurs the lines of what is real and what is not. The girls slide deeper and deeper into their fantasy world, to the extent that objects from their imaginations start appearing in the real one—including a baby.

Show details
  • 25 - 28 Sep | 1 hour 35 minutes
  • Venue: Flight Path Theatre
Performance notes
  • Sydney Premiere
  • Content warnings: Coarse Language, Discussion of Sexual Violence, Content Related to Mental Health/Ill-health, Sexual Themes
Venue details & accessibility
Flight Path Theatre

142 Addison Road, Addison Road Community Centre , Hut 9, Marrickville 2204 (Gadigal Country)
Telephone: 0405 399 931

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Reviews

"Screams the conception of feminism." - Theatre Travels https://www.theatretravels.org/post/review-what-every-girl-should-know-at-brunswick-mechanics-institute

Credits
  • Director/Producer – Nicholas Pavan
  • Producer/Cast/Costume Design – Mikaela Corrigan
  • Assistant Director – Sophie Persson
  • Lighting/Sound Design – Joseph Wasson
  • Cast – Mia Mcmenamin
  • Cast – Alice Mahoney
  • Cast – Katelin Divall
Presented by
  • Cats in the Cupboard Productions

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