Kidding....kind of
Not sure if this is the right section - soemone point me in the right direction otherwise!
I'm a theatre director but also mother to 22mo DS. I'm starting work on a project that might turn into a performance piece which might turn into a play, one of my local mums is a writer so we want to start creating something centering around pregnancy, labour and early motherhood.
So, I think the direction I'm heading in is the psychological change in you when you become a mother - from the moment you get that BFP onwards really. The changing dynamic in your relationships, how you view yourself, the loss of identity, struggling with guilt and grief and the overwhelming love.
There's something about psychologically becoming a mother, being labelled as a mother, which is so hard to put into words which is why I think it would be interesting as a performance piece...starting off with the physical changes in probably a comedic way (playing up to the pregnancy stereotypes and glamourised-labour-as-hollywood-views-it) but delving in the much darkers side of it all.
Of course we all love our children and wouldn't change our situations for the world, but is there something in the fact that only my mum friends really know how hard I find it all, really understand the feelings of self-worth depleting...sorry, am not trying to make out that motherhood is horrid, I just wonder if to the childless world it all seems like a bed of roses...is it more interesting dramatically to make people think about what they're saying when they talk about 'mothers'?
thoughts??