Within the charged confines of an all-girls school, four friends spiral into dangerous relationships and blurred boundaries, navigating shifting power dynamics, desire, and the murky lines between agency and victimhood.
“You know exactly what you’re doing. You’re just too scared to admit it.”In a high pressure, intimate school environment where girls are thrust into womanhood, in a society that fears predators but fails to stop them, and in which teachers live and work in fear of abuse allegations, we have the fault lines where She Threaded Dangerously begins - a play that dances on the knife's edge between power and powerlessness.She Threaded Dangerously is a bold new work that lives in the grey - challenging audiences with urgent, complex questions about patriarchy, consent, and the ways our institutions fail those they claim to protect. Moving between heightened naturalism and poetic prose, it follows four teenage girls as they fight to forge identity in a system that stifles them. They grapple to be seen, to be heard, to hold power - even as they are shaped, judged, and confined by the male gaze.According to ABS Recorded Crime - Victims data, in 2018 the rate of reported sexual assaults was higher for those aged 15-19 than any other age group. These stories aren’t fiction. They’re happening now. Join us in the discomfort. Step into the grey area. She Threaded Dangerously doesn’t offer easy answers - but it dares to ask the questions that can no longer wait.
