Friday 26 September 2025
Girls in Woods dives deep into the manosphere, the online culture where extreme forms of masculinity are promoted. From aesthetic morning routines to Andrew Tate, tradwives, and pick-up artists. Nine performers invite you into the small hall of PAARD. With genuine curiosity, they explore live on stage and through a female lens the allure of this world. They also draw connections to their own experiences with masculinity.
What does the manosphere offer? Freedom, control, and stability in uncertain times? What happens as they immerse themselves deeper into this world? How far can they empathize? What is the impact on their bodies and the risks involved?
Project Manosphere is both a deep dive and an open invitation: Can we imagine new forms of masculinity, free from fear or control?
GIRLS IN WOODS X PAARD
Girls in Woods creates performances at the intersection of online culture and real life. Together with young performers from The Hague, they explore cultural phenomena and transform these into urgent, visually striking performances and theatre productions.
Previously, Girls in Woods performed The Afterparty at PAARD an ode to The Hague’s nightlife.
With thanks to: PAARD, Theater De Regentes, Municipality of The Hague, Fonds ZOZ, Fonds 21, VSB Fund.
Performers and Creators: Sija Rijnveld, Cleo Faneyte, Lucie van Acker, Ginger Schut, Eponine de Beer, Sophie van Duuren, Neeltje Boevé, Madelief Brouwer, Bobbie Nahon
Director: Catoo Lustig
Music: Bobbie Nahon
Material and Text: Created by the performers under the guidance of Marjet Moorman
Dramaturgy and Artistic Support: Josje Bruinsma
Set and Lighting Design: Vasilis Apostolatos
Technical Support: Vasilis Apostolatos and PAARD
Production: Puck Rosa Smits
Visuals: Rik Grevink
Artistic Director: Marjet Moorman
Business Director: Julia de Koning
“When Girls in Woods asked me to take part in Project Manosphere, I immediately said yes!
Over the past two years, I’ve immersed myself in the world of the manosphere a fascinating (online) realm that I actually view with a great deal of compassion. I interpret its rigid ideology as a cry for support in a time when the role of men is shifting. It’s understandable, and at the same time painful, because that rigid ideology increasingly leads to violence against women, people of color, and queer communities. The very fact that I feel compassion for it is, in itself, a fascinating thing.
For Project Manosphere, I’m working with a cast that primarily offers a female perspective an exciting and challenging viewpoint!”
