These Theatre Thoughts

  Date: 20th May 2024  Seat: Unallocated Tickets: Gifted Rating: 4 Stars Maddy thinks this is her story, but it’s not. It’s not even her friend, Maria’s story. It’s our story, all of us, or at least it could be. What a terrifying thought.  Girls Really Listen to Me , written and performed by Eleanor Greene and directed by Alex Prescot, is a compelling, perhaps even devastating, one-woman play about Maddy, a spoilt 15-year-old girl private school girl from New York who, at first glance, seems far removed from any experience the audience might have had, but who, as the play progresses, becomes more like everyone else than she might realise.  Maddy is trying to grow up too fast; she’s obsessed with older boys and clubs and drinking, but when her friend Maria is assaulted, Maddy becomes a social outcast – she’s blamed (in part, at least), for what happened. Because, as it turns out, the girls really do listen to her, and she’s used that power in the wrong way. But then again, at 15, wh