Dead Girls Rising is a wonderful, punk-protest, anger-fuelled, musical examination of ladies’s actual experiences of attempting to exist in a patriarchy.
Exploring the depressingly giant variety of the reason why ladies come to worry women and men’s incapacity to stay life unafraid: watching what you say, what you put on, the place you go, how a lot you drink. Fearing that breath on the again of your neck, that surprising hand in your shoulder. The mere incontrovertible fact that you must be ready for what may occur to you as a result of “stuff happens everyday.”
It’s all depressingly relatable. As the songs declare; “nothing has happened to me”, “rather her than me”, attempting to not grow to be one other lifeless lady. Is that the perfect we are able to hope for?
But how will we exorcise these fears? How do you cease your fears consuming you? “What is justice?” they ask, “what is justified?” Is it to take revenge? Is violence the one reply?
Our fundamental protagonists Hannah (Angelina Chudi) and Katie (Helen Reuben) summon The Furies – sure, these Furies, the Roman goddesses of justice (or revenge), not the Irish people band. Tisiphone (Izzy Neish), Magaera (Zoe West) and Alecto (Rebecca Levy) a fabulously fierce trio of rock goddesses assist them navigate an answer, meting out vengeance the place it’s required.
We meet the duo at three key instances of their lives. Firstly as a pair of schoolgirls gripped by true crime fever. They huddle beneath the quilt consuming horror films and true crime podcasts. The pair are additionally haunted by the spectre of a murdered lady who “went to our school”. It’s all very city legend. Then as younger ladies negotiating the minefield of discovering love in “a time of war”. As Katie beseeches in a single tune, she’s solely searching for a “normal” man not even a “bespoke” one. The incontrovertible fact that he hasn’t murdered his mom, the perfect she will be able to hope for. We lastly meet the pair as mature adults, however each at very totally different phases of their lives: Hannah now a mom, Katie searching for an answer to her all-consuming worry.
Dead Girls Rising makes no apologies in saying what it does in the way in which it does – and neither ought to it. It does hammer residence the purpose however in the very best method. It is thrillingly alive and completely thought-provoking. The musicianship is prime tier, the script rocks alongside apace, the characterisations relatable and interesting. The solely observe of criticism is that the sound stability was a bit off, with the music overwhelming the singing and therefor the all-important lyrics. With the most important proportion of the viewers showing feminine it could be fantastic if extra males noticed this – it’s important viewing for these wanting to grasp the feminine expertise.
Dead Girls Rising is a gloriously indignant and energetic commentary on not solely ladies’s expertise in historical past however ladies dwelling within the right here and now.
