What comes out of Women? (short version)

There were several coincidences around me which made me create this show. First I happened to watch a film by Mike Leigh "Vera Drake" which provoked my fascination towards pregnancy and feminist issues. Then this made me think of my childhood in a traditional Japanese family, where people have different attitudes to gender. Then I found Dario Fo and Franca Rame's amazing one-woman monologue about feminism and pregnancy. Then at the time I was living in an area where we have many young families and you encounter young mothers with prams on every single bus you take. All of them merged into the idea of devising theatre about the theme of pregnancy, birth and a journey of a girl becoming mother. I also couldn't resist incorporating my ongoing fascination with time and generation which had made me create How to walk in Barcelona in 2006.

Directed by Keiko Sumida http://keikosumida.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• pregnancy
• physical theatre
• motherhood
• king's head
• young director