Sophie Roberts: Teenage Girls Will Save the World
Sophie Roberts: Teenage Girls Will Save the World
Sophie Roberts - Post Mag
03.07.2019
![Performer Tatum Warren-Ngata and Silo Artistic Director Sophie Roberts in rehearsals for The Wolves](https://silo.imgix.net/WolvesRehearsal_1152_ZDS_2600-copy.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&px=4000&q=60&w=1100)
![Silo Artistic Director directs performer Alex King in rehearsals for The Wolves](https://silo.imgix.net/WolvesRehearsal_1235_ZDS_3067-copy.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&px=4000&q=60&w=1100)
![The Wolves ensemble in rehearsals with Silo Artistic Director Sophie Roberts](https://silo.imgix.net/WolvesRehearsal_1132_DS8_7135-copy.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&px=4000&q=60&w=1100)
Theatre, like many art forms, can be pretty hierarchical. Drama is viewed as more “important” than comedy, a big flash set more than a small empty stage, older perspectives more than younger. I don’t mean to discredit experience by any means, but I do call bullshit on the cultural value we ascribe certain stories over others.
As the artistic director of a theatre company, I spend a lot of time thinking about stories, why we tell them, who gets to do the telling and why people should listen. We recently opened a show called The Wolves about a women’s high school soccer team. I wanted to do this work because I feel strongly about young women being taken seriously and represented in our cultural canon and this was a work where we get to discover young women on their own terms and observe them at the centre of their own experience.
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