Usual Girls
By Ming Peiffer
Due to the COVID-19 situation the 2020 season of Usual Girls It has been cancelled. Please stay tuned for details on the future life of this production.
Photography by: Robert Catto
★★★★
“A primal scream of a play”
- Time Out
Australian Premiere
On a school playground in suburban Ohio, Kyeoung and her friends get into an argument with a boy. Rory threatens to tell the teacher—unless, of course, one of the girls agrees to kiss him.
“Why do you even need a kiss?” Kyeoung asks. “Because that’s what girls are supposed to give boys,” says Rory. “That’s why we even play with them.”
Told through a series of vignettes spanning the 1980s to present, Usual Girls is a blisteringly honest account of the painful, wondrous transition from girlhood to womanhood. Battling both misogyny and racism, Kyeoung must navigate brutal terrain as she grows up, and the persistent self-loathing, the preconceptions and prejudice, the mean girls and the cruel boys, are all too agonisingly familiar.
Raw, refreshing and profoundly relevant, Green Door Theatre Company’s Australian premiere production of Usual Girls explores how women are shaped and shamed by men, and presents an incisive challenge to the way we perceive and co-opt female sexuality.
Team
LEILA ENRIGHT (Creative Producer)
BERNADETTE FAM (Associate Creative Producer)
COURTNEY STEWART (Director)
Details
Dates: 15-31 October
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre
Tickets: $30-$45
Photography by: Robert Catto