Love my hair and face and thunder
calves.
I don’t love anything about myself.
I like being small but I want to be
much thinner.
Compassion, compassion.
I love that I am smart. I love my
brain.
Hello, we are
Mighty Heart Theatre & these are some of the quotes taken from our
anonymous surveys (of which we had over 100 responses) which have gone towards
creating When I Feel Like Crap I Google Kim Kardashian Fat .
To give you
a bit of context… last year over dinner a girlfriend of mine said “when I feel like crap I google Kim
Kardashian fat” …after which my jaw hit the floor, I paused in awkward
silence, laughed it off & then got out my phone & wrote it in my notes
app. I knew that it was going to be a trigger for a new piece of work. I did
not know what/how/when. Fast forward 4 months & we have complied a mountain
of material from interviewing self-identifying women & conducting anonymous
surveys!!
Creating
this work has been a huge eye opener both as performers but most importantly as
women. To quote one of our anonymous surveys “women are cruel sometimes. Women can be cruel”. Within this piece
of theatre we do not claim to hold the answers, instead we’d like to share the
stories & open up a conversation about the pressure of unattainable
perfectionism & how this has seeped in to our culture.
We are also
testing ourselves as performers. Certain aspects of the piece will unfold on
the night with new material being used each performance to keep the work alive &
to give a voice to as many of the stories as possible. It will be different
every night! This as you can imagine is a flippin scary prospect as performers!
Will it work? Who knows but we’re going to have fun trying it out!
We are so
proud that we are presenting this work as part of Wonder Women Festival 2015.
Without the urgency & deadline of this festival it’s quite likely that this
piece would still not have been created yet! Our verbatim theatre performance (*verbatim theatre is a type of documentary
theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people
interviewed about a particular event or topic) explores what
it means to be a woman in a world obsessed with body image & celebrity
culture & the effect this is having on our self-esteem & lives.
Please join us to celebrate the festival & raise a glass to our own
Wonder Women. We proudly present this performance as part of Wonder Women 2015 with
support from Unity Theatre Trust & Arts Council England.
Performances take place at Gullivers NQ on Oldham Street M4 on Monday 30th
& Tuesday 31st March both at 8PM.
Tickets are £4.95 and can be
bought via WeGotTickets here: https://www.wegottickets.com/
*trigger warning: content includes stories
on disordered eating.
