the hope river girls
“bold and confident“ - mark fisher, the guardian
The Hope River Girls was a reconceived version for young audiences of groupwork’s multi award-winning 2019 debut, The Afflicted. Inspired by real events, the show tells the story of 24 schoolgirls in upstate New York who started behaving strangely and mirroring each other’s odd behaviour for no apparent reason. The show combines explosive choreography, video and text to examine how something as natural as teenage girls coming of age can become wholly un-natural and a subject of fascination and mistrust.
cast grace gibson, Amelia Isaac Jones, amy kennedy, Eléna Redmond
direction vicki manderson, finn den hertog
choreography vicki manderson
text & dramaturgy jake jeppson
video lewis den hertog
music & sound lewis den hertog
design camilla clarke
lighting benny goodman
stage manager mickey graham
producer sarah jane murray
the voice of hope river jessica hardwick
Commissioned by Imaginate, supported by Tramway
production photographs by tommy ga-ken wan