Scary Little Girls

It's Your Round!
2024-11-02 18:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Barnstaple Library, Barnstaple Library, Tuly Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1EL, United Kingdom
Prepare yourselves for a uniquely hilarious evening at Barnstaple Library with the ‘stars of rural touring shows’!
Join quiz Mistress and pub landlady Pat Pinch as she takes over Barnstaple Library with live music, prizes, audience participation and of course a few drinks. Test your team with rounds such as:

How local are you? So down with your town you can almost taste it…?
Jumping Juke Box!
Movie and music rounds – with a difference.
Plus general knowledge, photo and bonus rounds!

Whether you’re a liver-bashing barfly, or a strict abstainer, a quiz mastermind, or an absolute beginner, Pat is waiting to treat you to six of the best pub quiz rounds ever!
‘Fast and funny… cleverly written, with strong performances… comical beyond belief and sprinkled with hilarious musical interludes.’ Oxford Times
Booking essential as places are limited.
Bring your own bottle! Tea & coffee & raffle tickets available.
Over 16’s only.
Book here!

Queenagers - Plymouth
2024-10-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Real Ideas, Market Hall, Plymouth, PL1 4PS, United Kingdom
Menopausal mysteries leaked onto a stage near you!
“This show is an absolute light in the dark – when can I see it again?!” You demanded, we listened and Queenagers is back for these extra 2024 dates only! Book now and beat the waiting lists for the show that 97% of previous audiences gave 5 out of 5 stars.
All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand up, music, monologues and crafting that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring.
Come along and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you! Host, peri-menopausal glamour-puss Bunny Morethan aka Rebecca Mordan (Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News ‘rent-a-feminist’ and BBC Writers Room) is here to learn all she can about what’s coming down the female line.
In a perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause, Bunny will lead audiences on a be-sequined exploration of menopause and midlife. And following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the outrageous stand up of Jennifer Kennedy – award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause, Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman and the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me? – brings you Menopausal Monologues.
This is a collection of personal monologues breaking the silence around the menopause and giving voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Enjoy these two acts held together with music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women, – or Queenagers!
“So much laughter, a joyful evening that felt like an awesome sisterhood.”Join us before the show for cakes and cocktails with our women-only playlist and some radical crafting!
Book your tickets here!

Queenagers - Falmouth
2024-10-29 19:30 - 21:30 | The Cornish Bank, 34 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EF, United Kingdom

Queenagers - Truro
2024-10-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Hall for Cornwall
Menopausal mysteries leaked onto a stage near you!
“This show is an absolute light in the dark – when can I see it again?!” You demanded, we listened and Queenagers is back for these extra 2024 dates only! Book now and beat the waiting lists for the show that 97% of previous audiences gave 5 out of 5 stars.
All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand up, music, monologues and crafting that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring.
Come along and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you! Host, peri-menopausal glamour-puss Bunny Morethan aka Rebecca Mordan (Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News ‘rent-a-feminist’ and BBC Writers Room) is here to learn all she can about what’s coming down the female line.
In a perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause, Bunny will lead audiences on a be-sequined exploration of menopause and midlife. And following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the outrageous stand up of Jennifer Kennedy – award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause, Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman and the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me? – brings you Menopausal Monologues.
This is a collection of personal monologues breaking the silence around the menopause and giving voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Enjoy these two acts held together with music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women, – or Queenagers!
“So much laughter, a joyful evening that felt like an awesome sisterhood.”Join us before the show for cakes and cocktails with our women-only playlist and some radical crafting!
Grab your tickets here!

Live Arts Strategy Drop-in Session
2024-10-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Hall for Cornwall
Do you work in live or performing arts in Cornwall? Join Rebecca Mordan, our artistic director, and Helen Tiplady, deputy creative director at Hall for Cornwall, for a drop-in session on the Live Arts Strategy!
Becca and Helen are talking with artists in Cornwall, gathering your feedback to go towards wider thinking and planning work by Cornwall Council. It’s a great opportunity to make sure your voice is heard, both by local and national government, so do drop in.

Queenagers - Helston
2024-10-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Helston Old Cemetery, A394, Helston, TR13 8JA, United Kingdom

Queenagers - St Ives
2024-10-25 19:30 - 21:30 | St Ives Library, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2LX, United Kingdom
***SOLD OUT***
Menopausal mysteries leaked onto a stage near you!
“This show is an absolute light in the dark – when can I see it again?!” You demanded, we listened and Queenagers is back for these extra 2024 dates only! Book now and beat the waiting lists for the show that 97% of previous audiences gave 5 out of 5 stars.
All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand up, music, monologues and crafting that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring.
Come along and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you! Host, peri-menopausal glamour-puss Bunny Morethan aka Rebecca Mordan (Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News ‘rent-a-feminist’ and BBC Writers Room) is here to learn all she can about what’s coming down the female line.
In a perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause, Bunny will lead audiences on a be-sequined exploration of menopause and midlife. And following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the outrageous stand up of Jennifer Kennedy – award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause, Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman and the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me? – brings you Menopausal Monologues.
This is a collection of personal monologues breaking the silence around the menopause and giving voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Enjoy these two acts held together with music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women, – or Queenagers!
“So much laughter, a joyful evening that felt like an awesome sisterhood.”Join us before the show for cakes and cocktails with our women-only playlist and some radical crafting!
SOLD OUT – contact venue for returns!

Live Arts Strategy Drop-in Session
2024-10-25 15:00 - 16:30 | The Cornerstone, St Ives Library and Visitor Information, St Ives, United Kingdom

Queenagers - Liskeard
2024-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Liskeard Library, Barras Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB, United Kingdom

Duffy Beats the Devil
2024-10-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-28 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 and 1 more date | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
This autumn, we will be performing our all-singing, all-dancing, thigh-slappingly funny show based on a classic Cornish tale, back by popular demand after its previous sold out run!
Prepare to be transported to a colourful Penzance from days of yore with Duffy and her friends! This show is based on the Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin and features a dazzling cast of local and national talent including Johanne Murdock (His Dark Materials, Emmerdale) and Kate Rawson (Hall for Cornwall, Radio 4). Celebrate Penwith folklore with Cherry of Zennor, witch Maggie Figgie (and her piggy!) and of course working-class hero Duffy – can she and her pals triumph over the very Devil?
Cornish cheer, fun for the whole family, an original score by Cornish composer and fan favourite TJ Holmes (Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh) and stunning design and puppets by Jude Munden (Miracle, English Touring Opera) combine in this hilarious production in the perfect setting of the magical Minack Theatre.
Get your tickets here!

Duffy Beats the Devil
2024-09-26 15:00 - 17:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
This autumn, we will be performing our all-singing, all-dancing, thigh-slappingly funny show based on a classic Cornish tale, back by popular demand after its previous sold out run!
Prepare to be transported to a colourful Penzance from days of yore with Duffy and her friends! This show is based on the Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin and features a dazzling cast of local and national talent including Johanne Murdock (His Dark Materials, Emmerdale) and Kate Rawson (Hall for Cornwall, Radio 4). Celebrate Penwith folklore with Cherry of Zennor, witch Maggie Figgie (and her piggy!) and of course working-class hero Duffy – can she and her pals triumph over the very Devil?
Cornish cheer, fun for the whole family, an original score by Cornish composer and fan favourite TJ Holmes (Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh) and stunning design and puppets by Jude Munden (Miracle, English Touring Opera) combine in this hilarious production in the perfect setting of the magical Minack Theatre.
Get your tickets here!
We are delighted to offer a touch tour for visually impaired audience members before this show at 2pm – more info here!

Cornish Stories - Creative Workshop
2024-08-10 12:00 - 14:00 | The Ladder, Redruth Former Library Cic, ClintonRd,, Redruth, TR4 7PH, United Kingdom
Join us to discover stories collected from across the county and create your own creative response to add to our collection.
We’ve been collecting stories through our Chatty Cakey Tea events and you can discover all about the lives of the people who live in local communities through their own words. Listen to our collected stories and create your own images using collage and print to illustrate some of these incredible tales.
Or simply join us to find out more about The Living Room and add your own story of Cornwall to our archive.
Cornish Stories is a SPF funded project which seeks to capture local myths, legends and personal stories through the voices of the people who live here. Look out for The Living Room coming soon in autumn 2024 – a magical story-exploring caravan coming to a community near you! You’ll also be able to listen to stories from across the county in our Digital Living Room and full length interviews will be stored with Kresen Kernow.

Artist Support Surgery with Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan
2024-07-11 | Hall for Cornwall
Book time to talk to our own Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan on the 11th July at Hall for Cornwall
Got a creative query? Based in Cornwall? Book in now to get support and advice from the best – our own Becca!
Rebecca has worked as an actor in film, theatre and television, and founded award-winning production hub Scary Little Girls, to create roles and opportunities for women and populate stories with diverse female characters.
Rebecca has written, directed, produced and performed while working with a wide range of partners including the BFI, Glastonbury Festival and Hall for Cornwall. She recently co-wrote and presented The Greenham Effect for the BBC’s Archive on Four, drawing on the 200 plus testimonials she helped gather from Greenham Women as part of the Greenham Women Everywhere project she co-foundered. Out of the Darkness the title of her first book publication in 2021, based on the Greenham interviews.
Rebecca is a founding member of KerPow, Cornish female artists tackling sex and gender discrimination and has been a campaigner against male violence for over 25 years. Thanks to this she is often a ‘rent-a-feminist’ guest for BBC Radio, including You and Yours, 5 Live, Women’s Hour, and Sky News.
Book in for a support surgery now to answer any creative queries

It's Your Round - Bude
2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:00 | The Wharf, Unit 1, Lower The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG, United Kingdom
A PUB QUIZ WITH A CABARET TWIST!
Originally commissioned by Creative Arts East and Cornerstone, Didcot, this show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy and a traditional pub quiz. Join Quiz Mistress and Pub Landlady PAT PINCH as she takes over your local with live music, prizes, audience participation and, of course, a few drinks!
Test your team with rounds such as:
– How local are you? So down with your town you can almost taste it…?
– Jumping Juke Box! Movie and music rounds – with a difference.
– Plus general knowledge, photo and bonus rounds!
Whether you’re a liver-bashing barfly or a strict abstainer, a quiz mastermind or an absolute beginner, PAT is waiting to treat you to six of the best pub quiz rounds EVER!
Scary Little Girls specialise in presenting intelligent entertainment in a totally accessible format – expect our unique take on the picture and music rounds and enjoy the literature, movie & general knowledge rounds coming to life in a way never before seen in a pub quiz!
‘Fast and funny…cleverly written, with strong performances from the two-woman-cast throughout…comical beyond belief and sprinkled with hilarious musical interludes.‘ Oxford Times
“Scary Little Girls… stars of rural touring!” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Grab your tickets here!

It's Your Round - Redruth
2024-06-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Civic Centre, Alma Place, Redruth, TR15 2DA, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Liskeard
2024-05-31 19:00 - 21:30 | Sterts, Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AZ
***PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE – this will now be held at STERTS not The Liskerett Centre. All original tickets are still valid.***
‘The mixture of comedy, songs and some hard-hitting facts made for an electric evening, and then the space for chats and tunes after was just what I needed, thank you so much for this transformative event – viva la vulva!’ – Audience Member at The Riot Showgrrrls Club, 2022
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is a cabaret show and participatory craftivism event using humour, songs and storytelling to entertain and encourage conversation about how much better than porn actual sex is.
Imagine a club where you are greeted with sparkling wine, a suggestive cake and the feminist hand-stamp of your choosing…
In this club you are part of a show that combines Patriarchy Bingo, PowerPoint and madrigals about the vulva in a fast-paced, feel-good (mostly) feminist fling about great sex in an age of terrible porn.
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is run by your hosts, glamorous comediennes and singers who have the truth-telling powers of Cassandra, the political punch of Gloria Steinem and the high quality daftness of Melissa McCarthy (in her great films like the Heat and Spy, not those rubbish ones her husband directs).
How does such a night end? Well, after the show you stay on in the club to listen to the women-only DJ set, make your own club membership card with our Radical Craftivist, have some more drinks and get your conversation on – ‘cos in our revolution we’ll find sisterhood and there will be dancing!
Originally commissioned for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh in 2008, when lad mags were in their heyday, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being mainstreamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro-sex anti-porn show to Edinburgh.
Book your tickets here and check out the other show dates in our blog here!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will now be held at Sterts, rather than the Liskerrett Centre. All original tickets are still valid. This is through no fault of the original venue and we look forward to holding future shows there.

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Helston
2024-05-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Helston Old Cemetery, A394, Helston, TR13 8JA, United Kingdom
‘The mixture of comedy, songs and some hard-hitting facts made for an electric evening, and then the space for chats and tunes after was just what I needed, thank you so much for this transformative event – viva la vulva!’ – Audience Member at The Riot Showgrrrls Club, 2022
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is a cabaret show and participatory craftivism event using humour, songs and storytelling to entertain and encourage conversation about how much better than porn actual sex is.
Imagine a club where you are greeted with sparkling wine, a suggestive cake and the feminist hand-stamp of your choosing…
In this club you are part of a show that combines Patriarchy Bingo, PowerPoint and madrigals about the vulva in a fast-paced, feel-good (mostly) feminist fling about great sex in an age of terrible porn.
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is run by your hosts, glamorous comediennes and singers who have the truth-telling powers of Cassandra, the political punch of Gloria Steinem and the high quality daftness of Melissa McCarthy (in her great films like the Heat and Spy, not those rubbish ones her husband directs).
How does such a night end? Well, after the show you stay on in the club to listen to the women-only DJ set, make your own club membership card with our Radical Craftivist, have some more drinks and get your conversation on – ‘cos in our revolution we’ll find sisterhood and there will be dancing!
Originally commissioned for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh in 2008, when lad mags were in their heyday, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being mainstreamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro-sex anti-porn show to Edinburgh.
Book your tickets here and check out the other show dates in our blog here!

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Penryn
2024-05-29 19:30 - 22:00 | Fish Factory Art Space, The Sail Loft (Ground Floor), Commercial Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8AG, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Newquay
2024-05-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Newquay Orchard, Yeoman Way, Newquay, TR7 2SL, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Redruth
2024-05-25 19:30 - 22:00 | The Ladder, Redruth Former Library Cic, ClintonRd,, Redruth, TR4 7PH, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Penzance
2024-05-24 19:00 - 21:30 | The Hypatia Trust, The Regent, 54 Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AE

Common Ground: Greenham on Film: Golant, Fowey
2024-05-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Golant Village Hall, Water Lane, Golant, PL23 1LG, United Kingdom
Join us at Golant Village Hall, near Fowey, at 7.30pm on the 18th May for an evening hearing all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life. A screening of Carry Greenham Home will transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece, shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
The evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.
Everyone 12+
Tickets £10/£8
Book your tickets here

This event has been made possible by Carn 2 Cove – thank you!
