by Tiegan Byrne

My mother always said she wouldn’t make the same mistakes her mum did.

Three parties. Three decades. Three life changing decisions.

Over the course of a New Year’s Eve, three women confront the idea of motherhood and how their relationship with their mother has defined most of their lives.

Girlhood follows Nancy, during a chance encounter with her brother’s boss as she grapples with her idea of the perfect future. We follow Ivy as she sits on the toilet, pregnancy test in hand, unsure of what to do next. And after an off-hand comment from her boyfriend, Deja is left wondering if the issue of children will end her relationship.

 They explore what it means to be a mother, what our mothers teach us and, without meaning to, what our mothers teach us not to be.

A new play by Tiegan Byrne, directed by Cecilie Fray, coming to the Edinburgh Fringe August 2024.


A Sam James Production

edinburgh fringe 2024

Thistle, Riddle’s Court

A Greenside Venue

Friday 2nd August - Saturday 17th August

Performances at 6:30pm every day except Sunday 11th August

Tickets

Edinburgh Preview

Theatre503

One night only

7:30pm, Tuesday 30th July 2024

Tickets SOLD OUT!

creative team

  • Tiegan Byrne

    Playwright

    Tiegan’s credits include Born to Die, a Doctor Who Audio Drama starring Colin Baker (Big Finish Productions); ‘With Grace’ (Best Film at Dreamers Short Film Festival 2021).

    Girlhood is Tiegan’s debut play!

  • Cecilie Fray

    Director

    Cecilie is an Offie-nominated director working in both Theatre and Film. After being the Assistant Director on Moulin Rouge at the start of the West End transfer, she is now focusing on directing new writing and amplifying women’s voices on stage. She is really looking forward to working on Girlhood.

    Theatre includes: Director Working for Crumbs (nominated for 2 Offie Awards and 2 Broadway World West End Awards for Directing and Production), Santa’s Lapland Resident Director, Operation Epsilon Associate Director, Moulin Rouge! The Musical Assistant Director.

    Screen includes: Odds On / Odds Off, Unseen, Ritorno, Perfidia, The Royal Dupe, Your Hand Found Mine, Save Luna.

  • Sam James

    Producer

    Sam leads a double life as a theatrical agent for Marcus & McCrimmon as well as working as a lawyer.

    Girlhood is her first production.

  • Jodie Jasmin Hicks

    Company Stage Manager

    Jodie Jasmin Hicks is a Freelance Stage Manager with bases in Cambridgeshire and London. She has been involved in a variety of shows ranging from immersive productions to national tours and is delighted to join the Girlhood team and bring this exciting new play to the Fringe stage.

    Credits Include: Stage Manager on Luna Loves Library Day The Musical National Tour (Little Seeds Music), Production and Stage Manager on FLOOD Tour (Theatre Témoin), Assistant Stage Manager on DNA and Metamorphoses (New Wolsey Theatre), and Production Manager on Escape from Fort Lagoon (Submersion Productions).

  • Beth Colley

    Costume Designer

    Beth is an Off West End Award Nominated Theatre Designer and Art Director for Film & Music Production. She was shortlisted for the LET Award for Emerging Theatre Companies and is a practicing Artist

    Credits include: Operation Epsilon (Southwark Playhouse), Wild Animal (Backscatter Productions), David Copperfield (Riverside Studios), Ghosts of the Titanic (Park Theatre), She Seeks Out Wool (Pleasance Theatre), Oppenheimer & Stage Door (Italia Conti), Kinky Boots (Bernie Grant Arts Centre), Straight White Men (Southwark Playhouse), Abigail’s Party (Park Theatre), Our Last First (Union Theatre), AWA - Like I do (Sony Music), Corpse! (Park Theatre), 39 Steps (Maltings Arts Theatre), Black Chiffon (Park Theatre), Earth Hour (Pleasance Theatre), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Stepping Out, Boeing Boeing, Deathtrap, Fiddler on the Roof, Love Virtually, Blithe Spirit (Frinton Summer Theatre).

  • Jess Brigham

    Lighting Designer

    Jess is a lighting designer from Hull, having graduated with a first-class degree from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. She was selected to be a member of the SLX Lighting Programme and The Godber Theatre Foundation during this time, and has more recently been a recipient of the MGC Futures Bursary.


    Credits include Medusas First Kiss (Little Angel Theatre), Grimm (Sugar Punch Co), Wish You Weren't Here (Theatre Centre, UK Tour), Identities (Close to Home Productions, UK Tour), Mumsy (Hull Truck Theatre), Katzenmusik (London Youth Theatre, Seven Dials Playhouse), A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (The Gate Theatre), The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood (Barn Theatre), Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her) (UK Tour), Greatest Days (UK Tour), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre and UK Tour).

  • Matthew Giles

    Sound Designer

    Credits include: Cabaret (The Playhouse), Death Drop (The Criterion), Hymn (Almeida), Alice in Wonderland (UK tour), 9 to 5 (The Savoy), Young Frankenstein (The Garrick), Thriller Live (The Lyric), The Producers (international tour), Flashdance (UK/ Ireland tour), In the Heights and The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre), The Last Five Years (UK tour) and Rent (Edinburgh Fringe).

cast

special thanks to

Ashley Stockwell, Damian Schnabel, Nikki McNamara, Lesley Muir, Lola Muir

Girlhood at the Fringe would not have been possible without you

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7:30pm Tuesday 30th July 2024

Theatre503

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6:30pm Friday 2nd - Saturday 17th August 2024

Thistle, Riddle’s Court, Edinburgh

A Greenside Venue

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