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Girl X archiveEleven year old Maggie Mills has severe cerebral palsy and the mental age of a 5-month old infant. Her condition will not and cannot change or improve. Her mother believes that the physical changes that accompany adolescence can only bring distress and requests that surgeons remove her daughter's womb. The Mills case is examined from the point of view of the onlookers, a Greek chorus that asks what could or should happen next. Performer and disabled rights activist Robert Softley challenges this chorus and the heart wrenching, highly contested ethical issues that surround the case. When do private matters become public concern? Is the majority always right? Where will it all end? Inspired by debates on internet forums, Girl X is a new powerful and provocative fully staged piece of theatre from Pol Heyvaert, the creator of the National Theatre of Scotland's extraordinary Aalst.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Pol Heyvaert, Robert Softley, Bart Capelle

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Archive listings for Girl X (2011)

Work type: Play.

T2114488329

Recommended for age 16+Producer National Theatre of Scotland. Director Pol Heyvaert. Music Scott Twynholm.
19 Apr 11 to 20 Apr 11Eden Court Theatre, Inverness :: V626
listing details L145150082
12 Apr 11Dundee Repertory Theatre, Dundee :: V596
listing details L01375673465
16 Mar 11 to 19 Mar 11Citizens Theatre, Glasgow :: V611
listing details L1452082708
12 Mar 11Dundee Repertory Theatre, Dundee :: V596
listing details L444546085
4 Mar 11 to 12 Mar 11Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh :: V605
listing details L0652603101

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