Džemma Sudraba's stand-up show “Woman, pull yourself together!” - BezRindas

Woman, pull yourself together! Be well-groomed, but not too much. Take care of yourself, but don’t forget others either! Be successful, but not so successful that your husband feels threatened! Take care of the family, build a career, stay calm, find time for yourself and, most importantly, stop taking everything so personally!

If it feels like being a woman means taking part in a game whose rules keep changing, Džemma Sudraba has something to say about that. In the stand-up show “Woman, pull yourself together!” she speaks with self-irony, bold honesty and sharply observed everyday insights about society’s expectations, relationships, aging, the body, domestic life and the countless roles women are expected to juggle in a single day.

Because if you are a woman, you are probably doing something wrong. And if winning is impossible anyway, the least you can do is have a good laugh about it.