Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel

Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel looks and comes across as if it has been designed and written by a nine-year-old girl. And it has. A nine-year-old girl dressed in armour wielding a baseball bat and a Kalashnikov.

Artist and performer Bryony Kimmings hands the microphone to her fully-armed niece Taylor to expose the worrying reality for young women today, via their sexualisation, consumerism and gender projection.

The show is also a means of showcasing the duo’s fantasy creation: the titular likeable and aspirational pop singer and paleontologist Catherine Bennett. Bennett likes tuna pasta, sings a song called ‘Animal Kingdom’ and has a boyfriend who works as a proofreader.

The performance cannot really be described as acting – it exists in a unique space between a public lecture on feminism and the fantasies of a little girl, all rendered real through the costume changes of one woman’s wardrobe of wigs, sparkly dresses and early-thirties moral crisis. There are a few cracks, including taking a while to get to the heart of the matter, but none of it ultimately detracts from what the show is trying to say.

Credible… is the sort of state-funded feminist propaganda that sends the Daily Mail into fits of apoplectic rage. It is highly personal, heartfelt and worrying, but also supremely uplifting in its desire to create an alternative future for girls which means them not having to put up with the same shit as the rest of womankind. Help smash the patriarchy by giving it an hour of your time.