Comments on: Suspend My Disbelief

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:52:00 +0000

It’s interesting about the clothing situation. I rarely wear a skirt or dress in day to day life, so it feels unnatural for me and consequently I feel, like you, that I can move around much more comfortably in trousers. Last year, Susan Messing said that she wears whatever feels comfortable on stage but sometimes that’s a dress, sometimes it’s not. She said that occasionally she would clock that she’d done a lot of shows where she played men and androgynous or manly women so she’d choose to wear a skirt for a show just to remind herself to play girly girls as well (I’m massively paraphrasing by the way).
I’m not saying that’s the way to go, but it did make me realise that in order to ‘play’ wearing different clothes, it might be worth reminding myself what ‘actually’ wearing them feels like.
As a consequence, today I’m wearing an all in one body-stocking.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:55:00 +0000

I really enjoyed this Katy, and don’t think it’s something that get’s addressed enough.
I agree about loose and comfortable clothing. I’m happy to call myself a feminist and I think it’s just common sense!
Kissing is interesting too. As you know, I’m working on a love themed improv show at the moment. When we started the rehearsal process, we fully intended to let kissing etc. be a part of the show but when there’s no script or director it somehow feels odd. As a result we’ve never really done it in rehearsals but I totally agree that you have to be true to the moment if you are trying to create something believable. It may be something that happens in a show context. Again, I think trust with your fellow players is key. I remember a show we once did in Edinburgh when we had to be joined at the you know where – remember that?!