Cornwall’s Scary Little Girls theatre group awarded £18,000

A theater company working in Cornwall has received nearly £ 20,000 to tell under-represented stories about the experiences of menopause women.

Members of Scary Little Girls said they had received money to help them tell new stories through their Queenage program.

The show had already had two closed counters in the county, said the company.

The bosses added that they had received £ 18,601 from the National Lottery Community Fund to work with groups of women in Penzance to collect stories of their menopause experiences.

The show celebrates older women and looks at the positive side of menopause.

The artistic director Rebecca Mordan said: “We are now looking at how to make this only show, how can we make this representation of many different menopause experiences and this is what this work in Penzance will do.

“He will examine more external votes, women who are surviving of domestic violence and women in the working class, perhaps even economically very difficult history.

“We want to make sure that we expand this dialogue.”

The queenage in Penzance Project would work in partnership with Women’s Aid Penzance, Trelya and Voices from the Deep, said the bosses.

It would work with women of these groups to talk about menopause through a series of workshops, where they could share in all ways at ease and include recording a story, a performance delivered by themselves or the others or share anonymously.

The workshops were initially to take place over 10 weeks, then five additional weeks to develop the last work, said the group.