NORTHERN GIRLS BRIDLINGTON

A girl with long brown hair sat on the beachfront looking at the camera and smiling.

A girl with long blond hair, wearing dungarees, looking at the camera smiling, with the beach behind

A girl with long wavy brown hair sat on the beachfront, smiling at the camera.

A girl with long blonde hair sat on railings along the beachfront with the sea behind her.

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Photo: Matthew Cooper

Northern Girls - Bridlington

Presented by Pilot Theatre in co-production with ARCADE

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2021

Following the success of Northern Girls 2020, Pilot Theatre travelled to three new locations in autumn 2021 for a series of captivating outdoor performances in York, Bridlington, and Redcar. Incredible teams were brought together to develop monologues exploring what it means to be a Northern Girl in 2021. This ambitious project spanned three communities, bringing together debut writers, professional writers and directors as well as schools and community venues.

An Overview

8 new pieces of writing from local women / women with a connection to the area

1 local workshop for 30 young people led by 4 local female debut writers

4 professional northern female performers

4 local debut writers

200 audience members across 4 nights

Workshops

ARCADE worked with 4 local young female debut writers to develop their own stories through workshops led by spoken word artist Hannah Davies. These pieces were then featured in the Northern Girls - Bridlington performance. This was an exciting opportunity for the young writers to see their work performed professionally.

The Performance

The performance itself was unique to Bridlington and was developed, written, and performed by women and girls with direct connections to the town. Each short piece represented the joys, frustrations, and complexities of northern female identity and took place in an atmospheric and site specific outdoor setting at St Johns Burlington Methodist Church.

The venue was wheelchair accessible and a BSL performance took place on the Thursday night of the run.

Northern Girls Bridlington was a Pilot Theatre co-production with ARCADE and was supported by Arts Council England, Creative Europe and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Northern Girls Bridlington will be available to watch online for free, more details will be coming soon.

It was absolutely brilliant. I cried at the end. It was really emotive.

AUDIENCE MEMBER

I thought it was absolutely incredible. There was a really great range of pieces and as a brildington girl myself, I could really relate to a lot of the content.

AUDIENCE MEMBER

It’s definitely made me feel more empowered as a girl from the North and it’s given me inspiration to write a lot more and get my story out there as everyone has a story’

AUDIENCE MEMBER