GIRLS

by Theresa Ikoko

HighTide, Soho Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2016-2017

Three everyday girls, three best friends forever and three big issues: love, sex, religion. When they’re kidnapped from home, their world is turned upside down. Hope and despair blur, jokes and fights become one, and all that matters now is survival. Girls is a play about enduring friendship, the power of imagination and the stories behind the headlines that quickly become yesterday’s news.

Winner of the 2015 Alfred Fagon Award, Girls gives voice to silenced and marginalised women from all around the world, depicting three friends struggling to survive when their freedom has been taken away.

Director: Elayce Ismail
Design: Rosanna Vize
Lighting Designer: Andy Purves
Sound Design and Composition: Richard Hammarton
Produced by: Talawa Theatre Company, Soho Theatre and HighTide Festival Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Producers: David Luff (Soho Theatre), Francesca Clark (HIghTide) and Natasha Bucknor (Talawa)

Production Photography: Nobby Clark
Press: Time Out (4 Stars)
“Scorchingly intelligent and as powerful as a gut punch” The Times.