Film and theatre at #IWD festival
The weekend and next week have some particularly pleasing events if you are lucky enough to have a spare hour in Perth to explore the Perth and Kinross Women’s Festival.
As the listings below show, The Fair City has plenty to demonstrate it is on the international wavelength that unites women and girls in celebration of International Women’s Day (#IWD2020) on Sunday, March 8.
There are festival lunches at Perth College today, March 6, 12 and 13, where diners can try the top food and service put on by the college’s hospitality students.
And across the city, look out for opportunities to take to the golf course for a women-only taster or stretch out the muscles with some specially created yoga sessions.
Perth Drama Club has commented that members are “very excited” to have been asked to take part in the Women’s Festival on Sunday, March 8, when they will be putting on a short comedy play called ‘Menopausal Blues’ in the Souter Theatre at AK Bell Library.
Menopausal Blues should bring a smile to anyone experiencing ‘the change’ or wanting to see what might lie ahead.
The funny one-hour take on the tricky life journey is performed twice on Sunday, with shows at 2pm and 6pm. Tickets are £8 and are available from Perth Drama Club and on the door.
Perth Film Society is proud to be contributing once again to the programme of events, tapping into this year’s theme, that an equal world is an enabled world (#EachforEqual).
To fit that theme, PFS’s film choice on March 10 is Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut ‘Lady Bird,’ a coming-of-age comedy drama set in Sacramento, California soon after 9/11.
Jill Moody from PFS said of the movie choice: “Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but collectively we can help create a gender equal world by challenging stereotypes, confronting bias, broadening perceptions and celebrating women’s achievements.”
Lady Bird is the story of Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a senior at a Catholic high school who is bored at school and, ignoring her family’s money worries, wants to attend a prestigious east coast college.
She has a crush on classmate Danny and disappoints her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf ) by spending her last Thanksgiving before graduation with his wealthy family, not her own.
This, plus the continual arguments about college, strain her relationship with her mother and the film’s key preoccupation is that turbulent bond.
Christine insists that she be called by her “given” name of Lady Bird.
Director Gerwig has an eye for period detail and an acute sense of American class anxiety, presenting us with a magical portrait of adolescence. Lady Bird is screened at 7.45pm in the Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre. Tickets cost £6 (£5 for concessions), available from Horsecross box offices.
Other highlight is ‘Hidden Not Lost’, a talk on women’s place in Perthshire archival history at 6pm on March 12 given by assistant archivist Sarah Wilcock in the library’s Sandeman Meeting Room.
See www.perthiwf.co.uk for details.