Presented by Darwin Festival

Eight very different women. Same story. Told in a way we haven't heard before.

Hear the stories of eight extraordinary Australians brought to life in a staged reading by a diverse cast of eight Darwin women. I’m With Her is a timely and thought-provoking show about real women dealing with sexism in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp.

Written by Walkley Award winner Victoria Midwinter Pitt from frank and intimate conversations with eight extraordinary women, it features the words of counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly MP, sex worker activist Julie Bates, botanist Marion Blackwell, world champion surfer Pam Burridge, bartender Nikki Keating, Catholic nun Patricia Madigan, anthropologist and Indigenous leader Marcia Langton, and Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, all told by local performers. Together these women light up the golden thread that runs right through the patriarchy, and may yet be its undoing – the strengths women use to keep turning up to our own lives.

Confronting and uplifting, I’m With Her is a celebration of women fighting back, surviving and never giving up. It is a thrilling real-life demonstration, by the ultimate girl gang, of the power of women to outlast, outwit and out-muscle the great ugly beast of sexism.

‘This play burns with the generational energy of its characters, young and old. It reminds us – all women – of how much power we have in being ourselves.’ June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Social Justice Commissioner.

“A brave and beautiful show. As a piece of resistance, it’s bloody brilliant.” THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“A firestorm. A cultural milestone for Australian feminism.” AUDREY JOURNAL

Performance warnings
Contains coarse language and references to sexual assault and Stolen Generations
Recommended for ages 15+