Millennial Pink – Work in Progress

Millennial Pink is a brand-new piece of contemporary theatre exploring how 00’s pop culture shaped millennial women’s ideas around gender, sexuality and self worth in a society which presents young women with complex messaging and conflicting “ideals”. The show is a tough-love letter to pop music and MTV; an ode to bedroom culture and girlhood. To memorising lyrics and learning dance routines, scribbling in your diary, and learning to kiss using your pillow or your best friend. It embraces the raw authenticity and passion of being a teenager, reflecting on what we soaked up from the world around us that doesn’t serve us, but also wondering if we lost some of the good bits along the way.

Remember how it felt to scream lyrics at the top of your lungs and dance til your feet hurt sober mid week? We want Millennial Pink to remind you of who you were and ARE once you strip away all the mixed up messaging that blocked, boxed, shrunk and tamed you. It’s a show about taking back power, subverting the gaze, spotlighting and repositioning the joys and conflicts of modern mainstream feminism, flipping the script on what it felt like to be an adolescent and offering a more optimistic view of the power and potential within teenage girls today.

Encompassing devised and verbatim theatre, poetry, choreography, film and music, the piece will be a vivid and provocative cross art form explosion of ideas, energy, debate, discussion, protest and celebration. Developing findings from previous Girl Gang projects, the fully realised version will integrate the spectrum of Girl Gang’s output across theatre, nightlife, workshops and installation to create an experiential event held in a theatrical context.

This show is being made with direct consultation with the Girl Gang community via several strands of engagement work both past and present. This will be a sharing of work from the pieces second phase of development, come and see the material created so far and add your voice to the conversation.

Expect: Heaps of nostalgia, joy, giddiness and anger. Optional audience interaction including singalongs, dance offs, chants, break out discussions, passing the mic and and opinion polling. We hope there will be home truths, collective learning, fun and frank conversations.