The performance “Tympeät työts” gives a sharp voice to the fear and shame that girls have to grow up with

Ecocrisis. How Europe lets people drown in the Mediterranean. How we are incited against each other. Russia and war. Surgeries that drive children to the poverty line. The rise of misogyny. All that is happening in the United States. Genocide.

A moment earlier, the girls have rushed through rapidly changing scenes: from the Barbie games in the childhood room to the dance floor of a nightclub full of molesters, from the corridors of the middle school to the car repair shop and from class-conscious university parties to the humming ruins of restructuring.

Wherever the girls are.

STUDENT THEATER The joint production of Teatteri Vaientamaten and Teatteri Imatra will visit the stage for a few more performances Stupid girls.

Dramatization brings theater to the stage Riina Tanskanen from cartoons familiar, merciless contemporary analysis. See you on stage Aada Åhvenainen, Joanna Riikonen, Saimi Laine, Sandra Stromberg, Viena Kostamo and Venla Solonen.

The whole is a sudden but sensitive pamphlet about narrow attitudes and narrow ideals. From the endless feeling of inadequacy. From fear and the desire to please.

About the obstacles and fashions that girls bump into when they grow up in this society and culture.

The situations seem familiar.

After the performance, I feel a thrill inside me.

NIPPLES must be covered. Rule number one. Since childhood. It is also good to cover the seams of the panties. Someone might notice that you’re wearing underwear.

Danskanen’s text describes how girls are made to face unpleasant things as if it were a collective coming of age rite. No one asks if you’re ready.

Have you been yelled at in the street? Has your teenage body been commented on in front of others?

Almost every woman answers “yes” to these questions.

Feminists have been talking about appearance ideals, the internalized gaze and gendered violence for decades. Still, these problems have not gone away. Women are not viewed in society with the same yardstick as men.

END for Stupid girls moves towards more general economic and social criticism. Structural change and class differences emerge. Shame about childhood micro-laces and anxiety that moving forward seems to mean only and only moving to a big city.

Stupid girls shows the world as an unfair and absurd place: on stage, capitalism and patriarchy frolic in an interview with the Couple Goals podcast and talk about their lives as lovers.

IN still left the audience powerless.

Stupid girls offers the experience that one’s own difficult feelings are not personal failures, but are caused by the surrounding world.

Screaming, harsh stuttering, screaming, giggling and too loud laughter are the manners of a bad summer theater. In tympan girls however, they bring comfort. On stage, the girls blurt out everything that society has wanted to eradicate from them.

The girls scream for me, my mom, my cousin, my aunt, and my grandma.

Stupid girls succeeds in what social art can do at its best: it helps to understand.

That can start a change for the better.

The naughty girls at Ylioppilasteatteri on May 30 and 31.