Cornwall Theatre Company Awarded Nearly £20,000

A theatre institution moving successful Cornwall has been awarded almost £20,000 to show under-represented stories of women's experiences of menopause.

Members of Scary Little Girls said they had been awarded nan money to thief them show caller stories done their show Queenagers.

The show had already had 2 sell-out tours successful nan county, nan institution said.

Bosses added that they had been awarded £18,601 from nan National Lottery Community Fund to activity pinch women's groups successful Penzance to cod stories of their experiences of menopause.

The show celebrates nan older women and looks astatine nan affirmative broadside of menopause.

Artistic head Rebecca Mordan said: "We're now looking astatine really to make that conscionable a azygous show, really tin we make that a practice of tons of different women's experiences of menopause and that's what this activity successful Penzance will do.

"It will look astatine much outsider voices, women that are survivors of home violence, and women from very moving class, perchance moreover economically very challenged backgrounds.

"We want to make judge we're expanding that dialogue."

The Queenagers successful Penzance task would beryllium moving successful business pinch Women's Aid Penzance, Trelya and Voices from nan Deep, bosses said.

It would activity pinch women from these groups to talk astir menopause done a bid of workshops, wherever they could stock successful immoderate measurement they felt comfortable and could see signaling a story, a capacity delivered by themselves aliases others aliases sharing anonymously.

The workshops were initially owed to return spot complete 10 weeks, and past a further 5 weeks to create nan last portion of work, nan group said.