24 February 2018
Newsdesk
Naomi Sheldon’s award-winning debut play Good Girl will preview at VAULT Festival from 28th February to 4th March prior to transferring to Trafalgar Studios 2 from 5th to 31st March. Press night will be held on Tuesday 6th March at 7.00pm.
A bold, provocative and darkly comic coming-of-age tale that interrogates the experience of a young girl growing up in the 90s, Good Girl is a timely and distinctive piece that offers a vital new perspective to current dialogue about female experience. Sheldon’s unusually inclusive and charming form of storytelling allows her to candidly explore sex, masturbation and mental health, evoking the most wonderful and terrifying moments of growing up.
The opening week at Trafalgar Studios coincides with both International Women’s Day on Thursday 8th March and the Women Of The World Festival at Southbank Centre from 7th to 11th March, where Naomi Sheldon will participate in a panel discussion and perform excerpts from the show. This timely production has been praised by Academy Award winner Emma Thompson who described the show as “Cutting edge truth and hilarity from one of the freshest young voices this century. Don’t miss Naomi Sheldon’s Good Girl.”
Growing up in the 90s, GG and her friends obsess over music, vaginas and witchcraft. But there’s a problem. Living feels too extreme. To be one of the good girls GG learns to make herself numb, but at what cost?
One of these days am I going to evaporate? Right here? Things keep seeping into me. I’m not sure I have solid edges.
Winner of Voice’s Pick of the Fringe Award, Good Girl is a semi-autobiographical story that examines the dangers of defining ourselves by the opinions of others, delving into the conflict between the need to please and the frenzied faux feminist rebellion of 90s ‘girl power’. GG’s story brings together the gossipy teenage troubles of ‘Clarissa Explains It All’ and the pervasive disorientation of ‘The Bell Jar’ to create a piece that is at once dark, humorous and hopeful.
Vaults Festival
Venue: The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN
Dates: 28th February – 4th March 2018
Time: 9.30pm, with a matinee on 3rd March at 5pm
Ticket Prices: £11.50
boxoffice@vaultfestival.com / 07598 676 202
Trafalgar Studios 2
Venue: Trafalgar Studios 2, 14 Whitehall, Westminster, London SW1A 2DY
Dates: 5th – 31st March 2018
Time: Monday to Thursday: 7.45pm | Fridays: 7pm & 8.30pm | Saturdays: 3pm & 7.45pm. Ticket Prices: £15.00 - £35.00. Under 25’s get £20 tickets Monday to Thursdays.
Box Office: http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/good-girl/trafalgar-studios/ / 0844 871 7632
Age Guidance: 15+ Show Duration: 1 hour
Naomi Sheldon is an actress, writer and comedy improviser who trained at LAMDA.
TV credits include: Red Dwarf (Baby Cow), Cla’am, Diaries of the Great War, The Hour, Doctors, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (all BBC).
Theatre: Partners In Crime (Queens Theatre), Don't Waste Your Bullets on the Dead (VAULT festival), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre), The Pride (WE & Tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal & Derngate), Sex With A Stranger (Trafalgar Studios), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mouse and His Child (both RSC),Reclining Nude with Black Stockings (Arcola), The Emporer Jones (National Theatre), Good Girl (Edinburgh Fringe and Old Red Lion) and Canon (Edinburgh Fringe).
Radio: Incredibly Guilty (BBC Radio 4)
Matt Peover is a theatre, comedy and TV director.
Last year he directed the five star sell-out run of Nick Mohammed’s Mr Swallow: Houdini at Soho Theatre.
Theatre includes: Powder Monkey (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Musician (Belfast Festival), Patching Havoc (Theatre 503), Endgame, Cowboy Mouth, Crave, Feeding Time with Liquid Theatre (BAC), Hamlet (Natural Perspectives), The Liberation of Colette Simple (Jackson’s Lane), The Exquisite Corpse (Southwark Playhouse).
Comedy includes: Mr Swallow: Dracula and Mr Swallow: Houdini, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak: The Golden Lizard, Jayde Adams’ Jayded (Pleasance Edinburgh and Soho Theatre), Nick Helm: This Means War (Pleasance Edinburgh and Bloomsbury Theatre), Nina Conti In Therapy (Pleasance Edinburgh), Holly Burn: I am Kirsty K and I am Special, The Fitzrovia Radio Hour (Guilded Balloon), three Letluce shows, Live Bait, Show Pony and Sea Men - A Navel Tale (Just the Tonic and Soho Theatre). Screen comedy includes: Mr Swallow’s Valentine (Sky) and the short films Pick Your Own and A Very Serious Game (See Here Pictures).
Debbie Hicks is a theatre producer and general manager.
She recently produced the sell-out run of Peep Show co-creator Sam Bain’s debut play The Retreat at Park Theatre, directed by Kathy Burke, and is in the process of developing three pieces of original writing that will go into production in 2018. Credits as Producer: North of the Sunset: Thelonious Monk & The Jazz Baroness (in development); five-star sell-out kids show Shakespearience (UK Tour); Ray Cooney’s Olivier award-winning Out Of Order (UK Tour); Million Dollar Quartet (International Tour); Dinner With Friends (Park Theatre), and Tom Basden’s Holes (Arcola)
Credits as Manager: Brokeback Mountain (in development); five-star sell-out of Joe Orton’s Loot (Park Theatre); The Boys In The Band (Park Theatre, UK Tour & West End); Babe, the Sheep-Pig (UK Tour); Raising Martha (Park Theatre); Impossible (West End & International Tours); Let It Be (West End & International Tours), and Neville’s Island (West End).
