ABOUT THE PLAY
"We are here to join that conversation..."
In the era of #MeToo and #Time’sUp, millions of women are sharing their stories of abuse and discrimination. But inside all our stories there’s a part we don’t always tell—a seed of heroic resistance. Because none of us cops this stuff without, in some way, opposing it.
"The second you can actually hear it from so many other women then it's a different picture. Like little dots, that connect to make a very different picture." Dr Anne Aly, Monologue #8
A theatre show by Walkley Award winner Victoria Midwinter Pitt from frank and intimate conversations with eight extraordinary Australian women:
- counter-terrorism expert ANNE ALY MP
- sex worker JULIE BATES
- botanist MARION BLACKWELL
- world champion surfer PAM BURRIDGE
- bartender NIKKI KEATING
- Catholic nun PATRICIA MADIGAN
- anthropologist & indigenous leader MARCIA LANGTON and
- Australia’s first female prime minister JULIA GILLARD.
Together, they light up the golden thread that runs right through the patriarchy, and may yet be its undoing: the strengths women use to keep turning up to our own lives. Guts. Defiance. Wit. Acute emotional intelligence. Genius instincts for strategy and timing. And a healthy appetite for counter-attack.
A thrilling real-life demonstration, by the ultimate girl gang of the power of women to outlast, outwit and out- muscle the great ugly beast of sexism.
‘This play burns with the generational energy of its characters, young and old. It reminds us—all women—of how much power we have in being ourselves.’ —June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner