>> 10th November, 2025, at 6.00 p.m., Prešeren Theatre Kranj <<

The basis for the documentary performance Girls is testimonies or stories from women of three different generations. Teens, around seventeen years of age, thirty-something performers and their octogenerian grandmothers. Girls are the second collaboration between the director Tjaše Črnigoj and the Kolektiv Igralke from Rijeka, after Grannies in 2020. This time, the artists tackle the topic of coming of age and sexuality. They investigate what ‘losing virginity’ means to contemporary high-school students, whether they fear unwanted pregnancy, and what they perceive as sexual empowerment. They are also interested in how seniors remember their coming of age, first sexual experiences and the knowledge of sexuality they had at the time.

Girls use women’s personal stories to outline the change of times and socio-political systems. In today’s Croatia, the reproductive and sexual rights of women are under a serious threat and we need to ask where we’re going. Will the coming of age of future generations be increasingly similar to the way our grandmothers grew up?

Girls are thematically linked to the lecture-performance Sex Education II: Fight, which reconstructs the efforts for women’s reproductive rights in Yugoslavia, and together with it forms a diptych.

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