Rosie Wilby: Nineties Woman

Nineties Woman is a new show from award winning comedian Rosie Wilby using live interactive storytelling interspersed with video interviews, music and photo archive to trace a journey through early 90s feminism, refracted through a very personal lens.

Channeling a riotgrrrl-like DIY energy, the Matrix collective would cut and glue an issue together each month – once daubing a wall with splendid green and purple 'Sisterhood is Powerful' graffiti on a guerilla midnight mission just for the cover photo. In this funny and moving show, part documentary, part detective story and part unrequited love story, Rosie traces this original collective and investigates what happened to feminism (and the woman that everyone had a crush on).

Twenty years on, the Matrix women have diversified into all kinds of work – some have remained in journalism, others are authors, academics and playwright/poets, one a clinical embryologist and another a former barrister now running a successful vintage hair company styling hair on film sets and more.

Nineties Woman was commissioned by Shout LGBT Festival at Mac in Birmingham in March 2013 and is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Creation of the piece was supported by: Ben Walters, Time Out London's cabaret editor Naomi Paxton, actress, character comedian and writer (The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays); and Colin Watkeys, director of several internationally touring shows with performer Claire Dowie.

'hilarious adventure story involving a blurring of personal and political history grounded by a good dose of twenty-first century cynicism' - The F Word

'with plenty of laughs and charm, this a joy of a play, and the most fun you can have in a pair of dungarees and Doc Martens' - What's Peen Seen