Motherland

2012, 75 mins

Inching its way through airbrushed beauty, porn-star fashion, boob jobs and Botox, through victim-blaming, slut-shaming, misled motherhood and choking childlessness, Motherland is a funny, moving show about what it means to be a woman.

Spurred on by the Spice Girls, Germaine Greer and Caitlin Moran, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask ‘what is it that we really, really want?’

VDT’s brilliant multi-talented ensemble of 11 men, women and children, aged from 10-78, dismantle the dream that we can ‘have it all’ as they call into question the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it.

Characteristically cutting across movement, live music, the spoken word and song, Motherland is a call to arms – one that sticks two fingers up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time and instead asks ‘what do we hope for now?’

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