Good For Her! Solo Show Moves to The Other Palace London
After a critically acclaimed run at Theatre503, Good For Her!powers into The Other Palace for a hotly anticipated return to London. This sharp, subversive solo show from emerging writer performer Mollie Semple (Dumping, Cockpit Theatre; Persephone, Brighton Fringe) is a darkly funny gut-punch about ambition, womanhood and the calamity of building a life on everyone else’s terms.
Using multimedia to bridge the gap between curated Instagram worlds and reality on stage, Good For Her!pulls the quiet panic of comparison culture and flips it on its head. Audiences follow Iris as she ricochets between ambition, envy and the exhausting performance of ‘having it all together’, all while caring for her narcissistic mother as her health deteriorates. As compulsive doomscrolling and an obsessive fixation on a former schoolmate who seems to have ‘made it’ take hold, her reality begins to distort and rewrite itself in real time – building toward a confrontation she can no longer avoid. Navigating a ‘stalled’ acting career, Iris is left circling a question many women are trained to swallow: how much of yourself must you sacrifice just to get a seat at the table?
Directed by Kayla Stokes (See If It Sticks, Battersea Arts Centre; OSCAR at the Crown,The Neon Coven), Good For Her!draws audiences into a world where digital life, memory and internal monologue collide. The production explores the pressures placed on women to constantly self
improve, self-present and compete. Voices featured throughout the production include Jaquetta May (The Killing Kind, Paramount+; Ridley, ITV) as Iris’s Mum, alongside SNL UK star Al Nash, Zoe Maltby (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, BBC Radio 4), viral-sensation Jordan Stratton and Sam Morris.
Writer, performer and Producer Mollie Semple comments, This play came from two things: The first was a need to challenge myself both as a writer and an actor by creating a deeply flawed character who the audience could still side with. The second was that I wanted this character to act as an externalised embodiment of the ugliest feelings we can have about ourselves. Iris is not me, her life is nothing like mine -my real mum is amazing- she is a much more troubled soul than I am, but I know that a lot of people will see just a little bit of themselves in her.
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