In this presentation the risks and potentials of staging vulnerability in a community theatre practice with teenage girls will be explored. This presentation will explore vulnerability as a potentially generative matter that enables resistance in line with Judith Butler (Butler, 2016). The empirical material in this presentation comes from a one year ethnographic study following the theatre-groups’ work creating a performance based on girls’ stories and experiences of becoming woman in a particular Swedish town (Szatek, 2021).  Exploring how vulnerability becomes a generative, or restrictive force in the performance work, the tensions produced in the process are discussed with the aim to highlight the multitude of ethical dilemmas that arise when staging the everyday through participatory methods. One such dilemma is how aesthetic spaces emerge when interwoven with spaces of vulnerability. By drawing on post-constructionist (Lykke, 2010) and spatial theories (Massey, 2005) this presentations also intend to discuss is the embeddedness of the drama practice as it merges with, and challenges, the local context and the participants’ everyday life.