Makers Diary: Brainstorm 1

Woman..:
Red Shoes
Rules
Tasks
Trauma
4 performers, 3 female, one male. 3 of them in their underwear. Could get the audience to choose their clothes from a trunk, a dressing up box, choose from a plethora of clothes. Woman's clothes, red clothes.

Audience could make up stories about the performers that they have dressed, create characters. They could create stories about them as individual characters or as a group. Not whole stories but partial.

But not stories from out of nowhere, stories that are in response to questions, unfinished sentences that they have to provide the answers for. Stories in response to tasks that the audience have to find the impetus for.
The audience could also have pre-written/devised texts to choose from that they might want their characters to perform for them.
They could perform and then the audience give feedback and modify the performance through their feedback.

The characters could have HER. SHE and HIM inscribed on their bodies.
Not just clothes but wigs and make-up and perhaps some random props for the audience to choose from, to play with.

Need an overriding structure with which to pin it all together and work within.
As the audience come up with suggestions and responses to the questions, they could inscribe them on the floor in chalk, so that they become performative and are not lost. It will help the audience to choose from all the things being thrown into the mix.
Could have photos of women, real women, made up women, silver screen women scattered in the perf space.

The 4th performer as ring master, master of ceremonies…to help the audience and to bind it all together.

No formal seating plan, just cushions, bean bags, easy chairs…various things for the audience to sit in/on.