When five middle-aged women in Northern England form an amateur punk band, it’s because they’re fed up: with their thankless jobs, ungrateful children, aging parents and with men in general. That’s the plot of “Riot Women.”
As life grinds them down, they find new purpose in each other and in the music, original songs by ARXX. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, “Riot Women” grapples head-on with the realities of menopause, misogyny, trauma and aging.
Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with the show’s creator, writer and director Sally Wainwright.
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