This gorgeous, tender, and hilarious romp through the relationship between identity expressed through clothing and the extreme harmfulness of fast fashion and rainbow capitalism will leave you begging for more.
Sweaty Girlz currently playing at The Blue Room Theatre, as a part of the Summer Nights program, is a queer and culturally impactful look into the paradoxical relationship between identity and capitalism.
We are thrust into the surreal world of a department store where the mannequins have come to life and lure us deep into a gameshow where we the audience become contestants.
The supremely ‘slayful’ ensemble of Jo Cooper, Marli Jupiter, and Zendra Giraudo are experts in their craft and deliver their performances with a stunning presicion in movement and heavy vulnerability in their earnest anecdotes on their relationship with a specific article of clothing.
Liam Downey as composer/sound designer has delivered us a perfect satirical gameshow intro and pop sound scapes that truely transport us to this hyper commercialised queer hellscape. Holland Brooks’ bright and flashy lighting design with Julie Ziegenhardt’s detailed and handcrafted set design work in perfect tandem to eject us deep in the rainbow heavy target aisle and then thrown to the darkened streets where people still face heavy transphobia.
Sweaty Girlz brilliantly hits the mark to reveal a world where we can realise our own internal paradoxes and how we can grapple with them in a deeply profit driven sense of pride.
Sweaty Girlz is on now at The Blue Room Theatre through to Feb 3.