Wild Female Imagination

"Wild Female Imagination" is a stage adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel "Women Talking", inspired by real events of systemic violence in a secluded Mennonite colony.

Over two days, the women are left alone and must make a decision: stay silent, stay and fight, or leave the colony. Denied knowledge, language, and autonomy, their so-called “wild female imagination” has long been used to dismiss, and contain their experience.

As they speak, a sense of agency emerges – the possibility of thinking beyond the colony’s strong patriarchal structures. What takes shape is not certainty, but the first movement of revolt: the moment where silence breaks, and a different life becomes thinkable, and possible.