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Theatre and theatricality is at the heart of what Girl Gang do! We’ve presented world premieres of new writing, original devised productions, undertaken R&D’s & residencies, co-created work with young people, curated cabaret nights, tour immersive theatrical events around schools made movie mashups and pop up performances for promo events, not to mention six annual “Unseemly Shakespeare” collaborations with HER Productions.
Girl Gang’s theatre work is playful, political, visual and multi-sensory, often taking a participatory 360 approach and featuring popular culture nostalgia & a banging soundtrack. We love to work site-specifically and have made work in theatres, bars, scene docks, shopping centres and abandoned department stores.
Our theatre work has seen us collaborate with organisations including HOME, The Lowry, Hope Mill Theatre, Shakespeare North Playhouse, The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Oldham Coliseum, Waterside Arts Centre, Stage Directions and a Pendleton College.
Check out an overview of our projects so far below!
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Girl Gang have been leading and collaborating on full length devised and new writing theatre projects since 2018. Theatre-making has been a core part of the collective’s creative calling card since their inception with roaming performers and montaged reimagining’s of famous pop cultural moments being a key part of the immersive screenings programme.
With poetry, dance, stand-up, theatre, music and more, our cabaret nights celebrate the very best in established and up-and-coming North West female and gender diverse talent, all presented with the Girl Gang staples of managed mayhem and audience participation!
Since 2018 we have been collaborating with the fantastic team at HER Productions, who lead on producing our annual “Unseemly Shakespeare”, which reinterprets Shakespeare and centres local female and non-binary talent. Our productions are based at Hope Mill Theatre, who have been partners on the project since its inception, and since 2022 have toured to Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.
Check out this short film about the teams approach to Unseemly Shakespeare, made about our second ever production Hamlet in 2019.