Gender and Sexuality Scene Ideas

Ideas for scenes

Sanjana standing in the middle of a frantic, busy room. People shoving past you, hardly noticing you’re there – round by throughs. At some point you sink to the ground. Sophie walks up to you and sits down next to you – hymns hands. Using that balanced forces thing, Sanjana and Sophie stand up together.
Oppression
Collective societal avoidance of issues
Sitting in a chair. People are standing around you, chatting/laughing pleasantly. You stand up, open your mouth to speak, but are quickly muffled and pushed back into the chair.
Oppression

Two people are trying to reach each other across a space – people in love. Meanwhile, the aim of everyone else is to keep them apart. (Two girls and two guys).

Homosexuality
A same-sex couple being actively concealed by two parents from their children.
Taboo around homosexuality
Learning about relationships
A conversation between two young children about same-sex couples
A male and female side-by-side participating in stereotypically feminine/masculine roles e.g. putting on make-up
Binaries

CLOTHES: wearing multiple layers of clothing and stripping them off gradually à SYMBOLIC!

Puppeteer à male and female being forced into acts that stereotypically match their gender

Sophie walks across the room toward Lola. She is stopped halfway by Freddie and Ollie, who pick her up under the arms and carry her backwards. She is dropped on the chair

her.

Ollie spins her around to face him by the shoulders. Sophie spins herself back.
Freddie spins her around to face him by the shoulders. Sophie spins herself back.
Freddie lifts her opposite leg and crosses it in his direction. Sophie pushes it back.
Ollie lifts her opposite leg and crosses it in his direction. Sophie pushes it back.
Freddie forces Sophie to turn her head to him by the chin. She pushes her face away.
Ollie forces Sophie to turn her head to him by the chin. She pushes her face away.
Sanjana walks across the room in front of the group and shoves Sophie’s head down. Sophie bounces back up.
Freddie and Ollie pull Sophie like a tug of rope from side to side.
Lola approaches Sophie from behind and gently places her hands on Sophie’s shoulders. Freddie and Ollie stop in the middle and drop Sophie’s arms.
Freddie and Ollie turn their backs to the audience and drop to their knees.
Swapping traditional gender roles

Girl: airy, vain, dramatic, delicate

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