Shrill
Shrill is about women's voices - how they have been heard historically, the platforms they are given and the modern day criticism they receive.
What’s your greatest fear?
Losing someone?
The figure in the darkness?
That the thing living inside of you will get out?
Three sirens find each other on the edge of the world. They don’t know it yet, but this is the beginning of the end.
Shrill is an urgent, theatrical response to the silencing and belittling of female and femme voices across time and place. A show; a bouffon cabaret; a call to embodiment of the female voice.
Written by Amy Conway and directed by Melanie Jordan, Shrill is an immersive and emotive experience in a Glasgow nightclub. Welcome to the Cabaret de Shrill, serving rebellion and subversion with a heavy dollop of escapism.
Shrill is presented by Scissor Kick in partnership with Surge Festival, and part of the UCI Cycling World Championships 2023 Go Live! programme, and is funded by Creative Scotland.
Content warning: This show contains strong and adult language, references to the silencing of femme and minority voices, themes of violence and loud noises. For more information regarding the content of the show email info@scissorkick.co.uk.
Performance dates are as follows:
Tuesday 8th August: 7:30pm
Wednesday 9th August: 7:30pm
Thursday 10th August: 7:30pm (BSL Interpreted Performance)
Sunday 13th August: 3pm (BSL Interpreted Performance) and 7:30pm
TICKETS CAN BE BOUGHT HERE
Director: Melanie Jordan
Playwright: Amy Conway
Devisers and Performers: Amy Conway, Nerea Bello, and Fiona Oliver-Larkin
Set and Costume Designer: Fergus Dunnet
Associate Set and Costume Designer: Abi Law
Sound Designer: Novasound
Lighting Designer: Laura Hawkins
BSL Interpreter: Yvonne Waddell
Producer & Production Manager: Stephanie Katie Hunter
Assistant Producer: Sophie McAlpine
Stage Manager: Susan McWhirter
Sound Engineer: Clare Hibberd
Production Electrician: Roy Fairhead
Wardrobe Supervisor: Abi Law
If you are a member of the press and wish to talk to us about our production of Shrill, please email our fabulous PR at info@chloenelkinconsulting.com.
REVIEWS
DIGITAL
“Dynamic, female-led theatre company Scissor Kick is bringing ‘Shrill’, a collaborative clown cabaret performance to Glasgow” - Secret Glasgow
“Drawing from multiple theatrical forms such as clown, bouffon and cabaret, Shrill seeks to use the tradition of these forms to expose societal injustice and satirise the rich and powerful.” - Broadway World
“Three sirens find each other on the edge of the world. They don’t know it yet, but this is the beginning of the end. ” - Glasgow Life
INTERVIEWS
“The dismissal of female and femme voices as annoying and shrill is indicative of a more widespread socially acceptable misogyny that is symptomatic of a society that is patriarchal at its core.” - Beyond The Curtain, Interview with Amy Conway
“The design transforms a nightclub into a mythical Siren layer, sitting underneath an unaware Glasgow, where our Sirens take the audience on a journey through oppression to power. We are using the space as much as we can, leaning into the nooks and crannies and unique features that the space offers. We hope the audience feel like they have entered a completely different world when they come down the steps into the layer, and then see their world a bit differently when they emerge into the streets again afterwards!” - London Daily News with Melanie Jordan