We are the weaker sex. We’re godesses, muses, amazons and warrior queens. We can’t control our feelings and we bleed once a month, because we deserve it. We cry, scream, sulk and suffer inexplicable mood swings. We’re little princesses who love to dress up and curtsy. We need a man to tell us how to get organized. We all have oversensitive antennae and they hurt. We are either whores, saints or moms. We read signs in everything. We like to provoke but we don’t fully understand the impact. We’re good liars, use our bodies to get on in life, argue that it’s impossible to understand if you’re not a woman. We’re sirens. And the stage is ours.
'Throughout the years, Ontroerend Goed has become so much cleverer and fiercer in its strategy of confrontation, which makes the opinion of six all the more powerful: the male norm still starts too often between the legs.'
'Despite what sometimes seems a disturbingly confused line of thought, 'Sirens' emerges as a tremendously vivid piece of work about young western women in the early 21st century, checking their privilege, identifying the battles still unwon, insisting on the right to express their own blazing sexuality; and using their voices in ways that break new theatrical ground, and mark this show out as a fantastic theatrical experiment…'
'It's the unexpected juxtapositions that make this beautifully put-together show so startling and so thought-provoking. Big, bold, brazen, and not a hussy in sight. Only real women asking what it means to be a feminist.'