Scary Little Girls

Hall for Cornwall Living Literature Walks - May 13th
2022-05-13 | Hall for Cornwall
Inspired by the stunning refurbishment of the historic Hall for Cornwall building, we will bring their new space alive with performance, song and comedy!
These Walks will take you on a specially prepared journey around the theatre, bringing you into the path of some of your favourite Cornish artists performing vignettes inspired by Daphne du Maurier, Lady Killigrew and Dolly Pentreath.
Join us for this intimate, enchanting and unexpected performative treasure hunt and see, hear and experience Cornwall Playhouse as never before!
Dates: 6th, 7th, 13th & 14th May 2022, multiple times each day
Tickets here
Please Note: Pre booking is strongly advised as places for each Walk are strictly limited.

Hall for Cornwall Living Literature Walks - May 14th
2022-05-14 | Hall for Cornwall

SLG at The Great Estate Festival!
2022-06-04 | Scorrier House, The Great Estate, Scorrier House, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5AW, United Kingdom
We are so excited to announce that we will be part of a Queens of Literature event at The Great Estate Festival, in Redruth Cornwall!
A truly immersive experience, the Living Literature Walks will take you on a physical walk through history around the grounds of Scorrier Estate. A perfect experience for the whole family to enjoy, no need to book, just join in on the day.
This treasure hunt will take you on an exciting journey around the Scorrier Estate to discover Queens of Literature.
With clues to guide you around the route, discover performative treasures and nuggets of information as you explore.
There is a reward for anyone who finds all the treasure!
As well as already loved plays, music and poetry, we will also shed light on some little-known local gems!
Book your festival tickets here!

In Conversation: Rebecca Mordan and Jane Claire discuss 20 years of Scary Little Girls
2022-07-16 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Hall for Cornwall
Come along for the launch of our Mayven Festival!
Join founder and Artistic Director of Scary Little Girls Rebecca Mordan and some her favourite associate artists for an evening of chats, tall tales and music in the stunning refurbished Hall for Cornwall Playhouse Bar.
Kicking off with an ‘In Conversation’ hosted by Jane Claire OBE, you’ll hear behind the scenes accounts of some of the company’s exploits over the last 20 years, and have a chance to ask Rebecca, well whatever you want! The evening will then go cabaret style as Rebecca invites you to chose songs and stories from the Uke Juke box and enjoy performances from musicians, comedians and storytellers with your glass in hand.
The cabaret will feature a special guest performance from folk music’s brightest rising Star Flo Perlin. Flo has been aired and interviewed a number of times on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing, as well as on BBC Radio London, Folk Radio UK and BBC Radio Shropshire. Following her recent release, Flo performed a live set at the BBC Radio 2 studio, which included a special interview with Mark Radcliffe. She has supported artists such as Peggy Seeger, Rachel Newton and Sam Lee.
This event is the official launch for the Summer Mayven Festival, a week of multi-disciplinary feminist arts from local and national artists celebrating the 20th birthday of Scary Little Girls.
Book your tickets here.

Blue Moon by Fiona Graham
2022-07-17 10:00 - 17:30
As part of the Mayven Festival, Scary Little Girls are honoured to be supporting the work being developed by 3 remarkable female writers and directors.
In this stage of the festival each script will get a day of R&D each with actors and musicians from SLG’s Radical Rep hosted by a different communities across Cornwall.
This is an invite only event. We hope to continue developing these works in more detail and to present them publicly in the second part of our Mayven festivities later in the year.
BLUE MOON is a story about what happens when the sea meets the land, responding to climate change, the politics of living on an island and female inter-generational relationships. The play is set at the island end of Porthmeor beach and has been inspired by Paula Rego’s painting THE DANCE.

Joan Must Burn by Laura Wright
2022-07-18 10:00 - 17:30 | St Agnes Parish Council Meeting Rooms
As part of the Mayven Festival, Scary Little Girls are honoured to be supporting the work being developed by 3 remarkable female writers and directors.
In this stage of the festival each script will get a day of R&D each with actors and musicians from SLG’s Radical Rep hosted by a different communities across Cornwall.
This is an invite only event. We hope to continue developing these works in more detail and to present them publicly in the 2nd part of our Mayven festivities later in the year.
Joan Must Burn is an unfaithful adaptation of Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI.
This play ends in flame. In 1431, Joan of Arc, the nineteen-year-old Maid of Orléans, is burned alive at the stake while screaming that she is pregnant. The excuse is not enough. Joan must burn.
JOAN MUST BURN fuses extracts from Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, which stages the execution of Joan of Arc, with both historical accounts of Joan’s life and present-day medical and social commentary on anxiety and burnout amongst young women.
This collage of stories reframes Joan not as an idealized saint but as an exhausted teenager, barely able to withstand both the pressures of war and the growing doubt that her divine ‘visions’ are hallucinations sent by the devil, giving voice to a young woman whose fears and flaws have been concealed by centuries of propaganda and myth-making.

Salon du Cinema - Marilyn Monroe
2022-07-18 19:30 - 21:00 | St Agnes Library, 2 Trelawney Road, St Agnes, TR5 0TP, United Kingdom
Celebrate the stars of a golden age of cinema with Scary Little Girls’ Salon du Cinema, an intimate evening treating audiences to flirtatious cocktails, scene-setting live music and risqué tales of the secret and scandalous…
Together we will explore how female film stars pushed the boundaries both pre- and post-censorship, combining screenings of classic cinema with the sort of shenanigans you can only get away with in a salon, with a screening of Marilyn Monroe’s career-changing Bus Stop.
This event is part of Film Feels Curious, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Explore all films and events here.
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Sunday Lunch by Marie Macneil
2022-07-19 10:00 - 17:30 | The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JX
As part of the Mayven Festival, Scary Little Girls are honoured to be supporting the work being developed by 3 remarkable female writers and directors.
In this stage of the festival each script will get a day of R&D each with actors and musicians from SLG’s Radical Rep hosted by different communities across Cornwall.
These are invite only events. We hope to continue developing these works in more detail and to present them publicly in the second part of our Mayven festivities later in the year.
SUNDAY LUNCH is a snap-shot, a moment in time, between mother and daughters as they wrestle with their adult relationships, expectations of each other and life after loss. Warm, witty, wise and wild, this short play shines a light on the reality of women sharing space, and struggling with family dynamics in Cornwall today.
This play is the only part of the Summer Mayven Festival that can’t be seen by the public; we’d love to you come and give us your feedback on it at our Scratch Night produced with Hall for Cornwall and Into Bodmin in the evening of the 19th July.

Scratch Night
2022-07-19 19:30 - 21:30 | The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JX
Join us and our friends for a Scratch night on July 19th this year at The Old Library.
We’ll be testing out new material – anything from a couple of scenes to the beginnings of idea. YOUR responses will inform what goes ahead, and in what shape. Be part of the creative process and see things no-one has seen before and may never see in that form again!
We’re still pulling together the details and performers, so save the date and watch this space!
Keep up to date via our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

The Madcap Mayven Cabaret!
2022-07-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
Yes, it’s Scary Little Girls’ 20th birthday! No, we can’t believe it either!
But by the goddess we are going celebrate the heck out of it!
Join compére Rebecca Mordan – or Bunny Morethan to those who know her from the Glastonbury Festival Big Top – for an evening of music, stories, comedy, special guests and surprises from the finest fems from the Cornish arts scene. Other Artists who will perform include Dr Naomi Paxton, Elaine Miller and Alice Robinson – more to be confirmed!
Expect gin cocktails, birthday treats, party games and the anarchic joie de vivre that SLG have been known and loved for these past 20 years…
We cannot wait to see SLG back in the park following their last visit with the hilarious The Full Bronte.
Tickets and venue info here.

This event will also be livestreamed at 7.30pm on Facebook, Twitter & YouTube!

Mayven Exhibition
2022-07-21 - 2022-07-24 | Fish Factory Art Space, The Sail Loft (Ground Floor), Commercial Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8AG, United Kingdom
Join us to celebrate 20 years of Scary Little Girls and to be introduced to the Mayven in our multidisciplinary exhibition at Fish Factory.
Encompassing prints, illustrations, textiles, photographs and 3D artwork created by artists who’ve collaborated with Scary Little Girls throughout the past 20 years and artists based in Cornwall, all of the artists draw inspiration from wise, creative and uninhibited women.
Artists in the exhibition include:
Lyn Barlow
Anne Brierley
Alice Cooke
Jacky Fleming
Kayleigh Hilsdon
Fijke Middendorp
Henrietta Paine
Jill Raymond
LH Trevail
Caroline Wilkins
The exhibition runs from Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th July, and Fish Factory is open from 10am – 5pm each day.
On Saturday 23rd, from 10am – 12noon, we will host a lino printing workshop with Caroline Wilkins in the gallery. Booking is essential for this workshop as space is limited.
Email Sharon to book a place.
Image credit: One Moonlit Night by Fijke Middendorp.

Deeds with Words and Ada Campe: Too Little, Too Soon (double bill)
2022-07-21 18:30 - 21:30 | The Drapery, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with researcher, broadcaster and performer, Naomi Paxton, MC of Museums Showoff and Stand Up at the V&A, and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme.
6.30pm: A rare glimpse into some political, feminist theatre from over a century ago, with some script in hand play readings with Naomi and our rep company. In 1908 the Actresses’ Franchise League and Women Writers’ Suffrage League were founded, bringing together theatre professionals who wanted to support the Votes for Women movement through their work. They commissioned, produced and performed suffrage theatre and entertainments across the UK, seizing the opportunity to make new work that responded to the many issues and ideas at the heart of the suffrage campaign.
7.30pm – 8.30pm: Join us in The Drapery’s garden and bar, where there will be wonderful vegan Middle Eastern snacks for sale!
8.30pm: Ada Campe: Too Little, Too Soon. Variety artiste Ada Campe decided to do some research into her family history during lockdown – and was delighted and intrigued by what she found! Join her for a show about wonderful women, surprising secrets, and amphibian water ballets.
‘Very funny’ Guardian
‘Fabulous’ ScotsGay
‘Genius’ Sandi Toksvig
‘Extravagantly mischievous’ Chortle
‘A marvellous teller of tall tales’ Scotsman
‘Resembles an unhinged super-villain’ DIVA
Winner 2019 Good Egg Award, Stand Comedy Club
Winner 2018 Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Show (NATYS)
Winner 2018 Leicester Square Theatre Old Comedian of the Year
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival

Salon du Cinema - Mae West
2022-07-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Old Bakery Studios, Blewett's Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1QH, United Kingdom
Celebrate the stars of a golden age of cinema with Scary Little Girls’ Salon du Cinema, an intimate evening treating audiences to flirtatious cocktails, scene-setting live music and risqué tales of the secret and scandalous…
Together we will explore how female film stars pushed the boundaries both pre- and post-censorship, combining screenings of classic cinema with the sort of shenanigans you can only get away with in a salon, with a screening of Mae West’s 1933 comedy classic She Done Him Wrong.
This event is part of Film Feels Curious, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Explore all films and events here.
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Labia Lessons with This is a Vulva
2022-07-23 13:00 - 15:30 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Get the sex education you never got at school and learn everything you need to know about the vulva in this shame-free and fun workshop brought to you by This Is A Vulva.
We’ll cover things like why language is so important, what everything actually does, why capitalism could be damaging your vagina and how to look after your genitals properly. Not to mention a period pub quiz and the chance to make your own vulva. There’ll be laughs, a few rude words and plenty of honesty.
Open to all. No need to have a vulva to join in and all ages welcome.
Book your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Salon de la Vie presents Viva Your Vulva by Elaine Miller
2022-07-23 19:30 - 21:30 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Viva Your Vulva is a comedic take on things which are hard to discuss, but that women need and want to know.
Which is a vagina and which is a vulva? How can I stop my fanny from falling out? What is an orgasm and why is it sometimes easy and sometimes not? How do I stop wetting myself? Is this normal? 50% of UK women do not know which is their vagina and which is their vulva and frank, funny, factual women’s health physiotherapist Elaine Miller does not think that is ok.
This show is about what is in women’s pants, why they evolved like that, what you can reasonably expect from your genitals in the course of your lifetime, how to seek help if you need it, and who’s fault it is that you were never taught this stuff in the first place. Come and learn how to laugh not leak and how to tell your clitoris from your elbow.
This show is evidence based and counts as CPD for healthcare professionals and is guaranteed to improve your orgasms!! The show will be followed by entertainment, storytelling and songs from SLG’s artistic director, Rebecca Mordan.
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

The Secret Storytelling Garden
2022-07-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Princess Pavilion, 41 Melvill Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4AR, United Kingdom
Join storytellers from Scary Little Girls for a magical afternoon of storytelling in the stunning surrounds of the Princess Pavilions quarry gardens.
Alongside favourite local voices like Pauline Sheppard or Cornish classics like the Brontes, we’ll be bringing you stories specially commissioned for our Mayven Festival from writers like Bec Applebee, Lorna Partington and Anna Mansell. These tales have been woven from the rich mythologies of Cornwall and are new takes on ancient folk-law like Mother Ivey, Cherry and the fairies and Selkies.
As always with our storytelling events, we’ll be combining wonderful performers and stunning environments with music, pathos, wit and song.
Please book ahead as spaces for this event will be limited and we are very much looking forward to seeing you!
Book your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Game On! Cabaret Pub Quiz
2022-07-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Hall for Cornwall
A pub quiz like no other inspired by all your favourite TV quiz shows!
Be ready for action when you join landlady Pat Pinch for a brand new game show inspired pub quiz and theatre performance. Expect karaoke classics, trivia and a twist on some family favourites. Come on down!
Originally commissioned by Creative Scene, West Yorkshire, this show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy, vintage TV game shows 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:
– Super Smashing Great, general knowledge with a moving target!
– Pat in Your Eyes, music round with karaoke hits!
– Balls Up a Gladiator, get your coloured ball into the gladiator’s bucket and earn your team mega points!
Whether you’re a liver-bashing regular or a strict abstainer, a quiz master-mind 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 your favourite games shows of yesterday year to come to life in a way never before seen off the screen!
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Game on! Pub Quiz
2022-09-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Lelant Village Hall, Fore St, Saint Ives, Cornwall, TR26 3JR, United Kingdom
Be ready for a brand new game show inspired pub quiz and theatre performance.
Expect karaoke classics, trivia and a twist on some family favourites. This show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy, vintage TV game shows and a traditional pub quiz.
Quiz Mistress and Pub Landlady Pat Pinch takes over your local with live music, prizes, audience participation and, of course, a few drinks! Test your team with rounds such as: Super Smashing Great, general knowledge with a moving target! – Pat in Your Eyes, music round with karaoke hits! Whether you’re a liver-bashing regular or a strict abstainer, a quiz master-mind 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 your favourite games shows of yesterday year to come to life in a way never before seen off the screen!
Grab your tickets here!

Sea Cry Saga
2022-10-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-10-08 17:30 - 18:30 | Trebah Gardens, Mawnan Smith, nr Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5JZ
The crash of the wild sea; a roaring fire; the warmth of the cup in your hands. At the edge of the country where the land meets the waves, old stories and old powers come to life.
Tickets now available!
Scary Little Girls, Creation Theatre and Sue Hill present interlinking myths from Cornwall’s Viking history exploring the relationship between the wild environment, Goddesses and elements.
Don’t miss this unique storytelling experience, full of music and mythology, all on the sands the beach at Trebah Gardens: Friday 7 October and Saturday 8 October at 5.30pm (lasting about 1 hour).
Expect music by Claire Ingleheart, stories by Mercedes Kemp, T.J. Holmes and L.H. Trevail – tickets strictly limited so please buy quickly as we live to entertain rather than disappoint you! Tickets include full access to Trebah Gardens from up to 2 hours before the event.
Book here

Sea Cry Saga
2022-10-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-10-20 19:30 - 20:30 | The Slip Inn Bar, Mermaid Inn, St Mary's, TR21 0HY, United Kingdom
The crash of the wild sea; a roaring fire; the warmth of the cup in your hands. At the edge of the country where the land meets the waves, old stories and old powers come to life.
Scary Little Girls, Creation Theatre and Sue Hill present interlinking myths from Cornwall’s Viking history exploring the relationship between the wild environment, Goddesses and elements.
A spell-binding evening of story-telling. Enjoy a magical feeling of being whisked away into hundreds, maybe even thousands of years of stories from here and elsewhere.
To book, visit the Tourist Information Centre, Porthcressa, St Mary’s, call 01720 620600 or available on the door at the Slip Inn under the Mermaid.

Picture This
2022-11-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-15 17:00 - 20:00
Picture This is a free arts and crafts drop-in workshop aimed at mothers and daughters, but open to all parents and carers. Part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library, attendees will decorate a beautiful picture frame together and then get a professional photo of themselves to put inside.
In this friendly, welcoming space, artists from Scary Little Girls will support and guide you as you get creative and decorate your own picture frame together. Then, have your portrait taken by our professional photographer to finish it off! Create some quality time together away from day to day pressures and come away with a memory in your mind and your frame that will last forever.
Come along any time from 5pm to 8pm on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th November.
All ages welcome but all children need to bring at least one adult.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Storytime
2022-11-16 14:00 - 15:00
Join us for a special edition Storytime as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
Storytime is a special edition of the library’s free storytelling session for children – with extra added mayhem including the pig puppet from our pantomime Duffy Beats The Devil!
All ages welcome – children must be accompanied by an adult, thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Singing Workshop
2022-11-17 19:00 - 21:00
Join local legend Claire Ingleheart for a special FREE mums and daughters singing workshop as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
We’ll use song to find our voices, explore and celebrate women in music, and enjoy each other’s company away from the pressures of the outside world for an evening.
We’ll be hosting in our usual way to please expect a warm, friendly and supportive session with songs to amuse, move and inspire!
This is suitable for those aged 12 and up – all children must be accompanied by an adult, please and thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Salon de la Vie - Mothers & Daughters
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:00
Join us for a special one-offf Salon de la Vie live and in person, as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library
In this Salon focusing on Mothers and Daughters, we will look at that unique, often complicated, relationship. Old friends Rebecca Mordan and Shazz Andrew – who also used to run Scary Little Girls together – will ruminate on the humour, complexity, tragedy and contradictions of motherhood.
Expect a warm welcome and a drink (of course!) for this evening of songs, stories and chat in an intimate Salon that will be equal parts funny, tender and bewitching.
Tickets are £5 and are available from St Agnes Library in advance or at the door, on the night.
All ages welcome – all children must be accompanied by an adult.
This event is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Burys Bank Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 8BZ
Come to Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp: Time to celebrate
The spiders and crows are gathering on the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base when 30,000 women joined hands in solidarity, protesting against the siting of American nuclear weapons on Greenham Common.

Join the Anarchic Women Embracing Aldermaston at any point during the monthly Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th December 2022 in resistance against UK nuclear weapons at AWE Aldermaston.

Women will be weaving webs, celebrating the spiders and crows and resisting nuclear weapons through co-learning, connection and creativity.

Friday afternoon

Embrace the Tower! The Control Tower, Greenham Common
Combining photos and soundscapes, talks by women who lead or attended the Embrace, performances from Scary Little Girls, mulled wine and a singalong from the Greenham Song book!
Herstorians chatting to people and recording memories.
2pm, Meet, Greet and Memory share – grab your glass of mulled wine and add your photos, fliers or other memories to our Embrace table, and have a chat to the Herstorians hosting it.
2.30pm-3pm, Guest Speakers, readings and songs inspired by Embrace the Base by Scary Little Girls and female artists who were part of the action.
3pm, Embrace the Tower! Head outside where we’ll use hands and wool to embrace the tower and raise a cheer for peace and solidarity!
3.15pm-4pm, Head back inside to warm up with more mulled wine, and enjoy more readings and songs, finishing with time for a Q&A for all your burning Embrace the Base Questions.
Saturday
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
Workshop 1 – Making crows, spiders and jar lanterns (for evening Lantern parade) to encircle the base with webs, spiders & crows and expose the web of connections that enable nuclear weapons and AWE Aldermaston to exist (uranium mining, militarism, financial interests, etc.).
Workshop 2 – The Web of Resistance. Weaving the web of resistance to nuclear weapons and nuclear colonialism. What we need to resist, both in terms of personal energy, commitment and resilience, and possible/feasible actions.
Workshop 3 – Visions of a good society. What a world without nuclear weapons would look like.
After dark – Lantern parade
Site-specific performance by local Movement Artists (this will last approx. 20 mins and will also happen at 10am and 1pm)
Crows & Spiders shadow puppet show
Wintry spider & crow party (bring your own crow/spider costume or make one at Camp)
Sunday morning
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
10.30am-12pm Workshop – Movement Building: Militarism. Links to the Climate and Nature Crisis

The programme will be updated here on the Facebook event page and is subject to change. All accessibility and travel info is also available on that Facebook page. We are supporting and attending this event along with our sister company Greenham Women Everywhere, but we are not running it so we advise you to check the Facebook Page for the most up to date information.

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-10, 2022-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP
