“This play burns with the generational energy of its characters, young and old. It reminds us—all women—of how much power we have in being ourselves.”
June Oscar AO, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner
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In this era of #MeToo and Time’s Up, millions of women are sharing their accounts of abuse, exploitation and discrimination. Inside every story is a part we don't always tell, a seed of heroic resistance.
TRULY THRILLING TALES OF WOMEN'S REAL LIFE RESISTANCE
The stories of eight extraordinary Australian women loaded with real-life demonstrations of the power of women to outlast, outwit and out-muscle the ugly beast of sexism. A bold new work by award-winning filmmaker and playwright Victoria Midwinter Pitt.
I'M WITH HER was crafted from frank and intimate conversations with:
MARCIA LANGTON, anthropologist and Indigenous leader
NIKKI KEATING, bartender
MARION BLACKWELL, botanist
ANNE ALY MP, counter-terrorism expert
JULIA GILLARD, Australia’s first female Prime Minister
PAM BURRIDGE, world champion surfer
PATRICIA MADIGAN, Catholic nun
JULIE BATES, sex worker and activist
WA premiere, 2pm, 16 July, Subiaco Arts Centre
With a cast of extraordinary women:
SISONKE MSIMANG, writer - reads Anne Aly MP
LEE SAPPHO, legendary blues singer - Julie Bates
FIONA STANLEY AC, epidemiologist and activist - Marion Blackwell
LUCY GRIFFITHS, former elite athlete, community planner - Pam Burridge
GRACE CHOW, actor and storyteller - Nikki Keating
LIBBY LYONS, President, Chief Executive Women WA - Patricia Madigan
MARION KICKETT, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin U - Marcia Langton
ANDREA GIBBS, actor and broadcaster - Julia Gillard
