Performance layout (a draft)
Going through notes, I found this old outline of what I was thinking about for the solo performance while I was working on it. The most recent edit was on 9/30/08.
- Start with the first section of Ares and Aphrodite
- I think that works well going into Children’s Games, though I’m not sure. I also need to write something about bathing suits, and maybe this is a a good place to put it.
- Second section of Ares and Aphrodite
- Talk about fear of change – needs new writing. I think I should talk about separation anxiety and fears I had going into puberty (not that I saw them that way at the time, but looking back in retrospect…)
- Third section of Ares and Aphrodite – needs to be written. A jump taking the story from 10 (following the dream) to 20 (when the main character does something about it)
- Intro to the myth – reworked version of what I had today, with more background and drawing the audience into the world I’m creating
- Children’s games/’hairless v’ – similar to what I had today; need to keep working on it and (hopefully) integrate video
- Second myth section – covering the same ground I had today, may be reworked quite a bit
- Puberty/chicken pox – covering the same ground I had today, need to rework the language, physicalization, and (hopefully) integrate video
- Third myth section – ‘mythic journey’ leading to Ares
- Personal narrative – I’m currently thinking about looking at the nitty-gritty of hair removal following today’s comments about being more specific
- Fourth myth section – confrontation of Ares, anger
- Closing – finally adopting narrator voice for self “i long to dive into the pool,” etc. talking about constructing the story and not being sure where it’s going to go, the end isn’t written yet; acknowledging no one is ‘just’ male or female
That said, I also want to play with what the myth looks like if the confrontation/anger with Ares comes in section 3, right after the dream. That then lets the myth build to almost a conclusion, where I can come in and say, “I don’t know how it ends yet”
Themocracy