“I wanted to understand why women downplay success and feel bad about taking up space.”
In the play, Barron wanted to explore ambition and success — and how girls and women sometimes feel they can’t openly go after what they want.
Along with monologues like this one, the play contains some unexpected moments — the dancers are played by women of all ages, the girls grow fangs, chant, and hiss, and their teacher, always referred to as Dance Teacher Pat, is having them perform a dance about Gandhi, which he calls a “really beautiful number about resistance.
“I felt a real kinship with her,” Brothers said. “She’s a little weirdo, but she’s just sort of really in touch with her animal self and some sort of wisdom.” “There’s a lot of me in Amina and this difficulty of owning that you’re good at something,” she said. “It’s like if I say those things, it will hurt someone else’s feelings. I could get good grades or play music without too much difficulty, and I felt like I had to downplay that I was good at things.”“I think the play is about the things we do to talented, smart, extraordinary young women,” she said.
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