Just Us Girls - Theatre Review

What: Just Us Girls When: 21 - 29 September 2019 Where: Music Room, Trades Hall Created and performed by: Ellen Grimshaw and Alice Stewart Directed by: Milly Cooper and Sarah Vickery Lighting and sound by: Justin Gardam Alice Stewart and Ellen Grimshaw The Music Room at Trades Hall is being occupied by strong female performance makers this week with the show Just Us Girls . This is basically a VCA Masters programs takeover as directors and writers from the writing and directing program dominate the stage with overwhelming messages of female oppression and a plea for empowerment. The publicity blurb speaks to Just Us Girls being an absurdist work but that is not really correct. It is more accurately a post truth surrealist journey using performance body art (in the footsteps of the work of Maria Abramovic ). Coupled with Grimshaw 's stream of consciousness text, the show barely takes a moment to breath as it powers through a patriarchy which has no idea what it is to b