Planning of naturalist performance

As naturalist plays often deal with some issue in society, be it in a humorous or serious way, our group began the preparation for creating a three-minute performance with brainstorming ideas for the “issue” that we would focus on. We had all sorts of ideas, racism, environmental issues, stereotypes, ignorance, no freedom of speech, poverty gap, but in the end we decided on doing a performance on negative body image. It was between stereotypes and negative body image, and in the end it was a random decision, as everyone in the group found both ideas good. However, we needed a focus for negative body image, so we brainstormed some ideas. As it turned out, there was not that many different options, and they all lead into each other. Some options that we thought of were media influences, peer pressure, eating disorders, over exercising (including steroids). We decided on sort of combing the two, and having two parts to the performance: pressure for men to have a certain type of body, and for women. We didn’t get that much further, but it’s a start.