Historical, social and cultural

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Explore the impact of social, cultural and historical on the work

The historical, social and cultural influenced our play immensely because in order to create an understanding of our stimulus gender we needed to explore different sides to gender. We decided that in order for the audience to work out the meaning behind our play they needed to fully understand the idea of gender both past and present.

During the creation of our play we thought it was important to bring up certain topical issues, we decided the main issues would be how women were treated in the past and present, domestic violence, love and relationships, stereotypes and social roles.

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We chose the idea of ‘lion tamers’ because it was based on a circus however we twisted it so the scene was ‘lady tamers’ to show how women were treated in the past. We started off with the ladies as wild animals with the men in the middle shouting out the orders such as ‘wash the floor’. Then we went onto more advanced techniques were we stood in a ‘Stepford wife pose’ and spoke lines such as ‘have dinner ready, plan even the night before so he can have a warm meal on time.’ In order to create ...

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