Blogs that would be a good source of material for myself:
This blog is about bengali girl problems. It basically talks about why not to marry bengali girls, and the blog consists of many issues that we are intertwined with on a regular basis. They are problems that we see regularly in several instances and since I am so familiar with the content of the blog it would be a good source of material for myself to perform. This blog incorporates a list of problems, which each could either be a source to act out the problem, or the problem could be a performance itself.
This blog is about white girl problems. Similar to bengali girl problems- it would be interesting to compare the differences and similarities and identify how many connections the stereotypical white girl and the stereotypical bengali girl have. This would be a good source of material because again, white girl problems are something that I've seen made fun of, and its something people joke about on a regular basis. It's something that would be straightforward to act out.
This blog is about arranged marriage vs. love marriage. This would be an interesting source for a performance because it has different segments, with different questions and parts about marriage. The one part that seemed most interesting to me is "What happens in an arranged marriage?". This question is answered in a general form with the most stereotypical overview of arranged marriage, and it would be very good to make a performance out of. It's also interesting because arranged marriage has a similar stereotypical overview in our society, and the familiarity with the problem would make a good performance piece.
The blog that I chose to create a plan for: is blog 1 & 2.
The performance would consist of two groups of people. One staging white girls problems and the other would be bengali girl problems. The groups could be as little as 2 people and as big as 10 people because both blogs have enough material for such large groups to perform them. The concept for the piece is to show a comparison of white girls and "brown" girls (as bengali girls are often referred to as). The point of the comparison would be for the audience to identify the differences (hopefully similarities) between the stereotypical problems of the different cultured females. I think both would be funny to see. I'm trying to communicate that although the stereotypical identity is from two completely different cultures, they still have commonalities.
As far as staging elements go I think that for costumes it can either be kept simple or totally unusual. The different groups of different cultures "white" and "brown" could either be wearing opposite cultured clothing, so white girls wearing brown girl conservative clothes or vice versa. OR a safe way to play it would be if white girls wore white girls clothes and brown girls either wore kameezes or more conservative clothes, which could be western. No major props should be needed, other than perhaps simple girl tools like; makeup for example. For staging, the two groups would be facing opposing each other and it would be a somewhat showdown scenario. Where one person- or the performers for a particular problem step forward to perform it.
These individual problems should be performed one by one to each group, and the performers should have their own take on each problem to make the entire performance a form of comedy which is the ultimate goal; to make the audience laugh. The content itself is funny, so there isn't much needed to get people to laugh.
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