A Woman Like Me
A physical theatre piece encompassing themes of body image, body dysmorphia and body positivity. Through our own experiences, all members were essential in the process of devising.
We aimed to explore our positive and negative experiences with our bodies, the biggest pressures we have faced as women and how these experiences shaped the way we view our own bodies?
CREDITS
Pictures of the show: Tom Wilson
You shouldn’t be surprised when criticised little girls grow up into critical young women.

























Creating the sense of a woman's space. Carving the confines of the body.
Hand-made gobos mark out a maze – a woman's journey full of dead ends.
Side light exaggerates the body's shape.



This is the video of the whole of our 55-minute live show.
We speak directly to the audience. We dance, we tell funny stories about distressing events, we move abstractly then speak bluntly.
Through movement and voice, we let the audience know what it’s like to be in young woman in a world in which, for instance, most teenage girls think they should diet and where anorexia and body dysmorphia are rife.
We let the audience know that women feel shit about their bodies because they are relentlessly analysed and criticised. We're told we don’t ‘look nice’ yet also that we should appreciate our bodies because we ‘won't have them forever’.
We let the audience know what other people – our relations, our friends and, yes, total strangers – have said and done to our bodies over the years.
But we also show how we reclaimed our bodies for ourselves.
