Princess and the Pea

Attached is the beginnings of a one woman show i am working on. Influenced by Hans Christian Andersons ‘Princess and the Pea’, this one woman show explores the female psyche and the depths of the imagination when one is left isolated and entrapped- both mentally and physically. The play follows a woman after she is separated from her husband on the night of her wedding; as her bed gets increasingly more uncomfortable, so does her mind. As she tosses and turns, the bed becomes a metaphor of her deep vulnerability; her fears, her desires, her trauma. On a wider scale, it is a comment on the historical and current confinement and repression of women, taking influence from my research jn the history of the labelling of women who dont conform to societies expectation of them as ‘insane’ or ‘hysteric’. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eXjhU8kg2jBDKbA6GWn3wq3BAiD8u3wE0OqNssdDxxw/edit?usp=drivesdk