Blooded
Isabel Wright
The play is a coming-of-age drama about a group of young women finding their place in the world. They start with a swagger and false kind of intimidating confidence, exemplified by the ‘See us at the corner’ speeches. This confidence starts to fracture as they grow and their friendships are tested. They have an identity as a gang, but start to explore their own identities. They all have to find their own confidence, and this doesn’t work for some of the characters. Amy I think tends to be aggressive rather than assertive. She resorts to aggression to hide her vulnerabilities about getting older and becoming independent. Lou struggles to define herself out of Amy’s shadow. She tries to play the role of shoplifting rebel, even though she’s naturally a bookish conformer. Donna thinks she has to pretend to be something she isn’t, trying to get attention by claiming to have sexual experience when she hasn’t and finds it rebounds against her. She wants to be famous, glamorous, not have an ordinary life. Bernie blossoms during her romance, but then has to deal with the loss of Tess. She struggles to find her own independence while carrying the responsibilities of being a young carer, worrying about her sister and playing a maternal role within the gang. Tess feels lonely and misunderstood but can’t seem to reach out to the other girls. She thinks she’s found a soulmate online with disastrous results. In the background of the girls’ lives is a murder of a local girl and the gang deal with this sense of threat and mortality in their own ways.
Isabel Wright
The play is a coming-of-age drama about a group of young women finding their place in the world. They start with a swagger and false kind of intimidating confidence, exemplified by the ‘See us at the corner’ speeches. This confidence starts to fracture as they grow and their friendships are tested. They have an identity as a gang, but start to explore their own identities. They all have to find their own confidence, and this doesn’t work for some of the characters. Amy I think tends to be aggressive rather than assertive. She resorts to aggression to hide her vulnerabilities about getting older and becoming independent. Lou struggles to define herself out of Amy’s shadow. She tries to play the role of shoplifting rebel, even though she’s naturally a bookish conformer. Donna thinks she has to pretend to be something she isn’t, trying to get attention by claiming to have sexual experience when she hasn’t and finds it rebounds against her. She wants to be famous, glamorous, not have an ordinary life. Bernie blossoms during her romance, but then has to deal with the loss of Tess. She struggles to find her own independence while carrying the responsibilities of being a young carer, worrying about her sister and playing a maternal role within the gang. Tess feels lonely and misunderstood but can’t seem to reach out to the other girls. She thinks she’s found a soulmate online with disastrous results. In the background of the girls’ lives is a murder of a local girl and the gang deal with this sense of threat and mortality in their own ways.
Isabel Wright
The play is a coming-of-age drama about a group of young women finding their place in the world. They start with a swagger and false kind of intimidating confidence, exemplified by the ‘See us at the corner’ speeches. This confidence starts to fracture as they grow and their friendships are tested. They have an identity as a gang, but start to explore their own identities. They all have to find their own confidence, and this doesn’t work for some of the characters. Amy I think tends to be aggressive rather than assertive. She resorts to aggression to hide her vulnerabilities about getting older and becoming independent. Lou struggles to define herself out of Amy’s shadow. She tries to play the role of shoplifting rebel, even though she’s naturally a bookish conformer. Donna thinks she has to pretend to be something she isn’t, trying to get attention by claiming to have sexual experience when she hasn’t and finds it rebounds against her. She wants to be famous, glamorous, not have an ordinary life. Bernie blossoms during her romance, but then has to deal with the loss of Tess. She struggles to find her own independence while carrying the responsibilities of being a young carer, worrying about her sister and playing a maternal role within the gang. Tess feels lonely and misunderstood but can’t seem to reach out to the other girls. She thinks she’s found a soulmate online with disastrous results. In the background of the girls’ lives is a murder of a local girl and the gang deal with this sense of threat and mortality in their own ways.
