Jade: There’s a difference between not eating and dieting and besides you ain’t fat or unhealthy.
Girls on stage freeze. Narrators walk to edge of table and begin to speak.
Conversation is aimed at Kay. (I.e. pointing at her)
Narrator 1: This girl is showing the symptoms of anorexia.
Narrator 2: Anorexia is the relentless pursuit of thinness.
Narrators walk to music stands and people in the audience begin to talk.
Person 1: My mates got anorexia, I think. She doesn’t like her body weight or the way she looks and she’s well skinny.
Person 2: Yeah, I heard anorexic people are usually less than 85% in weight, than what is expected of them for their age and height respectively.
Person 3: My mum told me that someone with anorexia denies the dangers of low weight and is terrified of becoming fat.
Person 4: Ain’t that whats her face, she goes on and on about being fat to me in German. She’s obsessed about it for god’s sake, she should just get over it.
Person 3: Yeah she’s always talking about eating healthy and she daren’t eat anything with a bit of fat in and she acts right weird all the time.
People in audience freeze or sit facing stage, and girls on stage begin.
Melissa: I’ll eat your lunch then, that’s my favourite.
Kay: Here have it.
Kay pushes lunch towards Melissa.
Simone: How can you eat that much, after we have just been talking about being fat and stuff.
Melissa: Yeah but I’m starving.
Jade: Oh my god. Did you not have enough with your own lunch. You had like a bounty, dairy milk and two bags of crisps.
Kay: You’ll get as fat as me.
Simone: And if that weren’t enough you had a full litre of coke to yourself.
Melissa: I’m miles fatter than you.
Simone: Oh give over with it. You’re well daft.
Melissa: I’m still hungry-well kind of hungry- you lead a ‘normal’ life I get bullied all the time. It isn’t nice you know being the victim all the time because I’m fatter than all you lot.
Kay: Sorry I didn’t know you felt like that.
Girls freeze again with their food in hand or looking at Melissa with a sympathetic look on their faces
Narrators walk to centre of stage and begin to say dialogue this time aimed at Melissa
Narrator 1: This person is showing the signs of having a binge eating disorder
Narrator 2: Binge eating is where a person eats compulsively and doesn’t know when to stop
Narrators then walk to edge of stage and girls in audience begin conversation
Person 2: My friend from the youthy eats all the time. She eats and eats. She spends like £3 on sweets every night and on top of that takes extra munchies with her! I try to tell her to calm down but she can’t stop herself.
Person 3: Oh yeah I know who you mean she goes off and eats secretly all day. She takes loads of nibbles with her. I know cause I caught her behind the gym last week. She was eatin’ like loads before we got there.
Person 1: If it’s the person I’m thinking of she’s tried loadsa of diets, is always depressed and her mum told my mum she’s obese whatever that means!
Person 4: Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognised that obesity is a serious, chronic disease.
Person 3: I heard on the TV that people who have this kind of disorder don’t make them selves sick like people with bulimia do.
Person 1: I think she eats loads because she gets bullied I mean she really has a lot to cope with all those names and stuff.
People then freeze in audience and girls start to act
Simone: I won’t be a second I’m just going to the toilet don’t leave without me my bags under the table
Simone then walks off stage to be sick
Melissa: ok then we won’t. don’t be long though
Jade: I hope she ain’t going to do what I caught her doing last week
Kay: What, what tell us please
Jade: No I promised not to unless I found it again- sorry
Girls sit in silence waiting for the return of Simone she then arrives back
Melissa: I can smell sick! Where has it come from
Jade: I can’t believe you have you done it again?
Kay: Has she done what?
Jade: Making herself sick after food that’s what
Girls freeze looking at Simone with look of disgust on their faces
