An evening of short, urgent script-in-hand pieces written by young women aged 25 and under, exploring the joys and challenges of girlhood in the 21st century

ACT 1

The Girls’ Side by Sofia Melovic

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Amy Gavin

Bad Girls by Ruth Kelner

Directed by Zoe Alker

Peformed by Amy Gavin and Alice Proctor

25 by Alice Lamb

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Alice Proctor

Najma by Zeyana Yussuf

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Sofiya Haq and Shila Iqbal

A Period Drama by Rosa Hesmondhalgh

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Amy Gavin and Justina Aina

Mash by Chloe McLaughlin

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Chloe McLaughlin

A Bloody Disgrace by Pearl Andrews Horrigan

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Amy Gavin and Sasha Corfield

Girl Talk by Elizabeth Godber

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Natalie Vaughan

Once Upon A Time by Millie-Jo MacIver

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Justina Aina and Rosa Hesmondhalgh

ACT 2

All The Girls by The Amirite Ladies

Performed by Keeley Ray, Natalie Vaughan, Chloe Nall-Smith, Alice Corrigan, Aimee Marnell, Ellie Turner, Amber Higgins, Kaila Sharples and Heidi Henders

Falling To The Communists by Connie Hartley

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Shaban Dar, Sasha Corfield, Sofiya Haq and Natalie Vaughan

I’ll Start Monday by Hannah MacDonald

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Sasha Corfield

She Is Taken Lightly by Grace Howarth

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Shaban Dar and Shila Iqbal

Queerbaiting by Sophie Wright

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Annie Rogers and Rosa Hesmondhalgh

Number 75 by Zoe Alker

Directed by Zoe Alker

Performed by Rosa Hesmondhalgh

Home by Ellis Humphries

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Alice Proctor

To Forget by Tayiba Sulaiman

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by Alice Proctor and Shila Iqbal

I Stand For by Martha Kershaw

Directed by Julie Hesmondhalgh

Performed by the company

Produced by Grant Archer, Becx Harrison and Julie Hesmondhalgh