So Much Imagery!

Describe the purpose, focus, structure and style of your performance.

• The purpose

• We wanted to openly raise some questions about gender and sexuality in a unique way, through physical theatre.

• What images does your even evoke for you?

• Images of oppression

• Images of supressing feelings

• The feeling of not being accepted by society

• The need to adapt to feel accepted by society because acceptance is not taken for granted

• The images of being physically ‘moulded’ to conform to society

• What is the final list of images your group has selected?

• The image of how ‘acceptable’ people are created in society:

• Assembly Line: Physical scene

• The stereotypical beliefs of societal identities and identifications

• ‘BOY!’ ‘GIRL!’ scene : physical scene

• What is considered ‘normal’ in today’s society?

• Train scene : physical scene with the aid of music

• Material possession of girls and boys and how it affects them to think.

• Toy scene: text based scene/ physicality included

• How transgender people were (in some cases are still) viewed.

• Psychiatrist scene: physical scene

• Oppression against the LGBT community.

• Pulse nightclub scene: text based scene, with some physical movements

• Questions that are raised against gender and sexuality.

• Layering and ad-libbing: text based scene

• Final message and concept of our performance

• Children should be taught how to think, not what to think.

• Text based with some physicality