A Girl is a Hal-Formed Thing is a coming of age story told across a girls life by the actor Ella Prince. Director Erin Taylor talks to stags about this work adapted from a novel and bought to life at Kings Cross Theatre.

Vivacious, poetic and raw, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing speaks the experience of a young woman coming of age.
Subjected to the forces of stultifying religion, predatory men and a pious mother, this play will carry you into the
heart, mind and body of a girl as she formsin front of your eyes.

Director Erin Taylor, who has experience dealing with intense female stories since her Sydney Theatre Award
nominated production of ‘Slut’, says “A Girl Is Half Formed Thing is a beautiful and brutal play, a work of searing
uncomfortable truths that demands to be staged right now in this critical point of our conversation about women.
We had wanted to stage this show before the #metoo movement exploded into the public consciousness last year.
That’s because it explores a lived truth for many women, women have known these stories, we have shared our
pain together, but now we are emboldened to speak and now we are being listened to. The timing is
fortuitous as we sit in this public reckoning both in Australia and overseas, I am deeply moved and honoured to
bring the work to the stage at this moment.”

“Ella Prince, who will play the Girl is a formidable talent who brings her fierce intellect and instincts to the work.”
Ella Prince, a RADA Graduate who is now based in Sydney, has been one-to-watch on the Sydney stages since her
Sydney Theatre Award nomination for her work in The Shadow Box at the Old Fitz Theatre.