Hear the stories of eight extraordinary Australians
brought to life in a staged reading by a diverse cast
of eight local women from Albury-Wodonga. I’M
WITH HER is a timely and immensely powerful play
about real women dealing with sexism in the age of
#MeToo and #TimesUp.

Written by Walkley Award winner Victoria
Midwinter Pitt from frank and intimate
conversations with eight extraordinary women, it
features the words of counter terrorism expert Anne
Aly MP, sex worker activist Julie Bates, botanist
Marion Blackwell, world champion surfer Pam
Burridge, bartender Nikki Keating, Catholic nun
Patricia Madigan, anthropologist and Indigenous
leader Marcia Langton, and Australia’s first female
prime minister, Julia Gillard, all told by local
performers. Together these women light up the
golden thread that runs right through the patriarchy
and may yet be its undoing – the strengths women
use to keep turning up to our own lives: Guts.
Defiance. Wit. Acute emotional intelligence. Genius
instincts for strategy and timing. And a healthy
appetite for counterattack.

Powerhouse Guest Director, Susie Dee joins
us back at HotHouse Theatre to bring these
readings to life and celebrate women fighting back,
outwitting and out-muscling the great ugly beast
of sexism.

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