Queenagers coming to Swindon Arts Centre

Join Scary Little Girls for a riotous evening celebrating Queenagers and the freedom of menopause as sell-out tour visits Swindon Arts Centre on Friday 17 July

Renowned feminist theatre company Scary Little Girls announces a major tour of their critically acclaimed show Queenagers - a be-sequined celebration of the power of the older woman, offering a riotous, moving and liberating look at the positive side of menopause.

Queenagers will visit the Swindon Arts Centre on Friday 17^th July, bringing a vivacious evening of cabaret that tackles the truth about menopause - from its trials and tribulations to the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring.

Packed with comedy, music and personal monologues, the show is hosted by peri-menopausal glamourpuss Bunny Morethan - the alter ego of Scary Little Girls’ artistic director Rebecca Mordan, a Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News panellist and BBC Writers Room alumna.

Based on Jennifer Kennedy’s award-winning Facebook blog Is It Just Me and her sell-out Edinburgh stand-up show Menopausal Mayhem, Queenagers is a collection of personal monologues that break the silence around menopause, giving voice to the real experiences of a variety of women - and some of their significant others. Two acts are held together with music and song celebrating the mid-life woman in all her magnificent, complex, sequin-draped glory.

Queenagers is led by Rebecca Mordan and Jennifer Kennedy, whose award-winning blog on menopause amassed 47,000 followers. They are joined by Johanne Murdock, whose screen credits include His Dark Materials (HBO), Emmerdale and Such Brave Girls, Rosie Ede, whose stage work spans the National Theatre and Leeds Playhouse and Chloë Clarke, performer, director and co-founder of disabled-led company Elbow Room Theatre.

The guest cast includes Cornish stalwarts Jenny Beare (Kneehigh, The Eden Project) and Flo Crowe. lead singer of Flo Crowe and the Dilemmas and actor in BAFTA-nominated film Enys Men alongside Deborah Tracey (RSC, Standing at the Sky's Edge) and Amantha Edmead, founder of Kuumba Nia Arts.

The show is directed by Shazz Andrew, whose credits include Kneehigh and the Minack Theatre, and designed by Clare Summerson, co-founder of the Day-Light Group. The production is managed by Jade Dunbar, renowned stage manager of the Glastonbury Circus Big Top and co-founder of award-winning Pirates of the Carabina.

Rebecca Mordan, artistic director of Queenagers, said: "We are absolutely thrilled to be taking Queenagers on the road again. This show has been so loved on every tour we've done - our audiences have laughed, cried and told us it's changed how they feel about this stage of their lives, and that never gets old.”

Bunny Morethan and her court of Queens invite audiences to join them for an evening that is by turns hilarious, tender, outrageous and very reassuring - a reminder that the menopause is not an ending, but a transformation. Discover the Queenager in you.

Tickets available from https://trafalgartickets.com/swindon-theatres/en-GB/event/play/queenagers-tickets .