Washing Line

About us: As two young upstarts disillusioned with our “Daisy Pulls It Off” education and today’s supersexualised culture, we explore the notion of womanhood as a stock type role and female sexuality as merely a pair of 99p bunny ears from Woolies.

Is femininity a performance? Women of the 50s constructed their identity around Jell-O moulds, spam, and the top-loading dishwasher. ‘Washing Line’ asks if women of today are still expected to live this outmoded ‘Zip-a-dee-doo-dah’ existence; is she still threatened by the power of the “big dick”?

Drawing parallels between the raunch culture of today and the archetypal 1950s housewife, we challenge whether women have awakened their sexual selves or if they are like medieval minstrels, behaving just as men want them to.

Devised theatre. New writing. Elements of dance, silence and mime. “Washing Line” experiments with the highly stylistic Berkovian aesthetic that physically embodies the spirit of the 50’s mechanized mannequin, yet the play also talks through girls who nurse their blisters and their sore “wazoos”.

Washing Line was first performed at the Elbow Room Bristol, and then staged at Greyfriar’s Kirk House at the Edinburgh Festival 06.