Two puppeteers blend their own bodies and voices with puppets of different sizes in this poetic, humorous and sensual show. It tells the story of some of history's outstanding women scientists.
The performance looks at the drive behind their groundbreaking achievements, and at the discoveries they never received credit for. The title refers to the so-called Matilda effect, a term named after the American activist and freethinker Matilda Joslyn Gage, who in the 1800s noticed that women's scientific work was systematically credited to men.
Pernille Nedergaard Haugesen and Astrid Kjær perform. The show is also running at Folketeatret on other dates in November 2026.
