Thistle & Rose take us by one thing of what it’s to be a younger girl at the moment in Post Sex Spagbol at VAULT Festival
“Who knew lying to teenage girls could be so amusing?”
As the title would possibly counsel, Post Sex Spagbol isn’t actually your common Mills & Boon strategy to intercourse (I say that not ever having learn one, do they even nonetheless exist on this age of self-publishing…) Rather, this can be a spunky, all-too-telling account of what it’s to be a girl on this trendy age, a world the place misogyny will be so deeply ingrained that it pervades the mindset of everybody, no matter the way you establish
Thistle & Rose got down to “uncover the dirty truths of womanhood” and in Katie Bignell’s ingenious hour-long play, there’s one thing bracingly refreshing about about its forthrightness. Less soiled and extra tingling, as if that mint bathe gel has reached particular locations, the frankness on show lends a sure depth to the thrust of what would possibly in any other case be a straightforwardly comedian drama, albeit one soundtracked with orgasms to the William Tell overture and condoms that go pop.
Bignell, Georgia Wilson and Signe Ebbesen share the function of Krissy, a reserved girl-turned-nepo-baby whose parental connections land her a job as a counsellor and sex-ed trainer at a women boarding college. Given she will’t get by a sport of Shag, Marry, Kill with out traumatising herself, it’s a place she’s ill-equipped for, however as she leads her classroom down a wince-inducing path of deliberate misinformation, one thing of a reckoning together with her personal mindset bubbles up.
Working with this lead-sharing, multi-roling three-woman ensemble, director Caitlin Lee Smith evokes the universality of Krissy’s expertise, the rising pains of rising up, in addition to honing in on the younger feminine expertise. With its suite of pink captions taking us by the scenes, it’s an entertaining hour and now I’ve an actual hankering for some candy and bitter hen balls.