Stimuli

For our devised piece we had quite a few stimuli, some of them being pictures and some being videos. One example of this is a picture of some schoolboys in some straw hats. This gave us the inspiration of gender roles in school. This lead to us doing some research and finding out that students in single-sex schools tend to do subjects and activities that wouldn’t be as acceptable in normal schools. Boys had a higher tendency to join choirs and girls did more sport. This then lead us to set our piece in a school (this would later change). And another inspiration we had a was a commercial called "This girl can" this gave us inspiration to create something to do with feminism. In the beginning we thought about switching roles so me and Neo played female characters and then the girls would play male characters. And we wanted it to be a comedy so we used a lot of stereotypes. This is also a bit satirical because our views was pro-feminism however our scenes were anti-feminist, hence making the audience think about the issue and realise its wrong. 

We decided dump the idea of the opposite gender because we felt like we weren’t getting anywhere with the idea so we moved on to if the genders were switched. As an example, me and Isabel devised a scene where she, as a female would act like a man and I, still of the male gender, would act as a female and make Isabel food, stay at home while she’s at work etc. This didn’t make it either to the final performance, however it was a useful process to go through and definitely helped us for figuring out our final piece ideas.