Growing Pains

Would you rather meet a man or a bird at a bus stop? A girl is alone at night. But not for long.

In the wake of the Epstein files, and the current issue of femicide in the North of Ireland, Growing Pains bears the fruit of an outrageously hilarious political drama.

An unflinching new play about 2010s girlhood, cringeworthy quests for love and the cyclical curse of womanhood. Growing Pains celebrates the chaos and contradictions of growing up: wanting to go ice-skating with your parents, but also wanting to get drunk and fingered in some random field.

Funny, feral and full of girlhood fury, it asks what we inherit, what we survive, and why the same stories keep happening again and again.

Growing Pains is designed to empower an audience to fight against the system of injustices and find community in girlhood. The show does contain some triggering themes so some audience members might find this distressing but it has been created in such a way as to not labour on traumatising themes and instead embolden an audience to find their power.

Anyone who came of age in the 2010s glued to their TV watching My Super Sweet Sixteen and idolising a career in Hollister. Growing Pains sits comfortably alongside SkelpieLimmer’s debut show; Two Fingers Up and acts as a natural sister piece to carry on the story where Two Fingers Up left off.

If you’re feeling burnt out with the state of the world, and the dangers of merely being a woman in today’s society instead of doomscrolling on your sofa why not come be held in our collective power? Most importantly, you should come see the show if you just want to have a fucking laugh