Usual Girls

See it if This is a staggeringly complex and profound journey through a young woman's life as she confronts the joy and pain of being female.

Don't see it if You're not on board to see women's bodies, lives, and struggles exposed... and I mean exposed.

See it if The most important show of the year. Should be mandatory. Brilliantly gets to the rawness and brutal reality of girls growing up.

Don't see it if You can’t handle explicit and uncomfortable discussions about sexuality or are uncomfortable with nudity.

Also Linear vignettes make you uncomfortable yet might seem so rawly familiar. It’s a tour de force of writing, performing, and staging in a perfectly intimate setting. It’s right up in your face and need to be. Most compelling treatment of these issues I’ve seen yet.... Read more Read less

See it if you are interested in a contemporary look at sexuality for females growing up in the 90s/00s. A transparent view into 1 characters timeline

Don't see it if you get uncomfortable easily. The subject matter is conveyed so well that it really does make you uneasy (not necessarily in a bad way)

Also To be honest everyone should go, and everyone should feel uncomfortable. I was excited to see this topic hit head on in the Blackbox Theatre.
Although, I do find it hard to watch adults play children, and they played 9 year olds as if they were 5, so it took me out of it a bit.... Read more Read less

See it if you want to see girls' ripening sexuality.

Don't see it if you can't handle very blatant sexuality and nudity.

Also At times this made me very uncomfortable. I am of a later generation than in this play and it made me very glad that I didn't grow up in the 90s and later. A woman next to me was overcome with tears at the end. Obviously it was very relevant to her. It was fascinating even while repugnant.... Read more Read less

See it if you are interested in the development of female sexuality and/or like to see work by new playwrights

Don't see it if you are offended by explicit language and nudity.

Also Watching a girl get her first pubic shave is not my idea of entertainment.... Read more Read less

See it if You have a pulse in today’s fraught and divisive discussions about gender and sexual harassment and assault.

Don't see it if You might be triggered.