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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?

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CREDITS

                         Pictures of the show: Tom Wilson                       

A physical theatre work exploring body image, body dysmorphia and body positivity.  We needed to make a show about how young women are repeatedly analysed, criticised, pressurised. 

You shouldn’t be surprised when criticised little girls grow up into critical young women.
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Our work was influenced by a number of different companies, in particular The PappyShow, a London-based physical theatre company.  Like them, we put much emphasis during our rehearsal process on the authenticity of our personal experiences and a belief in the right to explore those experiences playfully and without fear of failure. 

 

We were bold.  Through writing exercises and improvisations, we explored our personal histories and our present and past feelings about our bodies.  We were willing to show ourselves to each other in raw and vulnerable states. 

 

We have been all the stronger for that.

VOICE
Resonating with the space.  Belly breath and chest resonance.  Giving the audience a vocal bath. Nose resonator for mean comments.  Temple resonator for protective sarcasm.  Different languages explore our stories in different cultures.
MOVEMENT  
Challenge the kinesphere.  Ask more of the body.  Shape shift from sustained to sudden, fine to firm, flexible to direct.  Find deeper shapes with heavier motions.  Contrast unease with comfort. Share your weight.  Share your life.  Own your body.  Own your life.
STRUCTURE

Direct address, physical theatre, contemporary dance, social dance, stand-up comedy, burlesque.

Thematically-linked episodes.

A tape measure, strewn underwear, a lone sweet, a clothes rail, and two comfy chairs.

Disruptions through moods and emotions.

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.

LIGHTS

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.

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