Girls

Based on a true event in recent history, Girls tells the plight of three of the girls abducted and enslaved by a terrorist organisation in northern Nigeria.

Why is everyone so bloody obsessed with hashtags? What on earth do you want to do with a hashtag? Can you use it to shoot your way out of here?

Tisana, Ruhab and Haleema are three normal teenage girls who have been best friends forever. But when they are kidnapped from their hometown, each must find their own way to survive.

Girls explores enduring friendship, girlhood and the stories behind the headlines that quickly become yesterday’s news.

Theresa Ikoko’s funny and fiercely passionate play is a Verity Bargate Award finalist and winner of the Alfred Fagon Award (2015) and George Devine Award (2016). Girls received its world premiere at HighTide Theatre Festival 2016 on 8 September 2016 in a production by HighTide, Soho Theatre and Talawa.