GREASY GIRLS
‘It Only Takes a Toe’ (2025). Photographer: Ophelia Fellhauer @fellhauer_fotos
Founded in 2022, Greasy Girls Theatre is the brain child of Sophia Trewick and Libby Waters - a writing, performing and directing duo preoccupied with existentialism, female friendship and dolphin births. Take a look at our previous work below.
Libby & Sophia in Brighton
It Only Takes a Toe
‘Mountview’s Director’s Showcase’. The Backstage Theatre, Mountview. 2025.
Director: Alfie Chesney
Photographer: Ophelia Fellhauer @fellhauer_fotos
In 1884, the four-man crew of the wrecked yacht ‘Mignonette’ were cast adrift in a small lifeboat without provisions. After nearly three weeks at sea, two members of the crew decided to kill and eat the ship's 17-year-old cabin boy.
‘It Only Takes a Toe’ is a four-woman play which draws inspiration from this historical event and the legal case that followed by imagining the lives and futures of the women connected to the men aboard the Mignonette.
We wrote the script in dialogue with director Alfie Chesney who staged the first production of the play at Mountview Backstage Theatre in 2025. The next iteration of the play is currently in development.
I Was a Bear
The Laughing Horse @ The Walrus, Brighton Fringe. 2024.
“Pitch-perfect melding of comedy, pathos and tragedy”
“Strong comic performances, a uniquely absurdist world view and some beautiful writing”
- Thom Punton, The Reviews Hub
‘I Was a Bear’ tells the story of April and Constance, two lonely, failing twenty somethings. After meeting in a waiting room for therapy, their lives intertwine as they experience each other’s dream worlds and distant memories. This two woman show invites the audience into the intimate world of their friendship, and their individual minds.
Swimming Words, Women’s Words
Sea Lanes, Brighton. 2024.
Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel
Libby and Sophia giving a performed reading of ‘Swimming Words, Women’s Words’ at Sea Lanes, Brighton
Greasy Girls wrote ‘Swimming Words, Women’s Words’ for the ‘Swimming A Long Way Together’ event produced by Fabrica and Vanessa Daws (visual artist and long-distance swimmer). The event brought artists and swimmers together to celebrate the extraordinary legacy of open-water swimmer Mercedes Gleitze (1900 - 1981).
Our text explores the relationship between women and wild swimming; drawing on our own experiences, and those of the women in our lives who also feel a strong connection to swimming in the sea. Extracts from our script have been published in the ‘Swimming a Long Way Together’ anthology, a book documenting the wider project of which our piece was a part.
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