
IN character
Being a woman in the world is different to being any other gender, and so it is being a woman
in the acting world. Everything in society is gendered, which means theatre is as well. In this
film, the process of trying to understand women's gender role in
society by testing, experimenting and playing with performativity and gendered actioning is shown. Is that chosen, or is there is a patriarchal base that
we can’t avoid? Does that then mean that actors can’t chose how to approach their
characters’ as learning is gendered?
The narrative of the film is broken as what is authentic or original does not matter
as much as the spectator’s experience of the performance and what they will be taking with
them. The mechanisms of representation are deconstructed to draw attention to the essential
artificiality of the performance and the system that is behind it, always pulling the strings: the
patriarchy.

Created and performed by
Eva Mateos Rodriguez
Photographs by
Sophie Giddens











