Why is this text box over here? I didn't mean for it to be here.

Am I failing?

Does everything need to be a failure?

Is this a show about failures?

I cried in class. 

Why do I find this so emotional?

I cried again in class.

So I figured, am I really just a woman in a midlife crisis? A basic bitch in crisis? 

What a cliché!

Do I need to talk about men? There are also childfree men?

I've never cried in front of a teacher before in my life.

I didn't want to be a cliché.

Maybe that makes me the biggest cliché.

What's wrong with me? I'm a really happy person!

I have this theory that if we are quick to judge people and label them as one thing, we don't appreciate all that they have to offer. And then we are quick to dismiss them if they don't align with us. And the more we dismiss people, the more lonely and closed off we become.

I welled up in class again. The third time.

I feel like at the core there is social loneliness. Or a feeling of a lack of creativity.

• Trans
• Immigrants
• Intersex
• Muslims
• Childfree women
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No wonder! I cry every time I'm in class with her!

"KONA Í KRÍSU"

My teacher commented that I'm a woman in crisis.

Some part of society is quick to dismiss entire sections of people

I lost one text box...

But I don't want to make a show about a woman that doesn't want to have children and is lonely. That is NOT what I want to say.

If we could just be more open, more accepting, more curious...

what a cliché.

The world would be a better place?

What am I trying to say?

I NEED TO MAKE UP MY MIND!

If I want to reclaim the term Basic Bitch in a feminist way, how do I do that? Why do I want to do that? Who does it serve? How does it work on stage? Does it matter?

If I'm a woman, making a show about women, in a feminist way, do I need to only refer to other female theatremakers?

Do I dream of a more basic life because my life is stressful? Because of some hardship?

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Is this show about:

• Consumerism
• Capitalism
• Feminism
• Individualism
• Society
• Motherhood
• Labeling
• Flocking
• Group mentality
• Collectivism
• Midlife Crisis
• Burnout
• Anxiety
• Loneliness
• Patriarchy

where is it?

Am I trying to say that I AM a Basic Bitch, or that I am NOT a Basic Bitch? Which way do I lean?

What even is my artistic process?

WHAT IS MY RESEARCH QUESTION?

Can I not talk about Brecht? Because he's a dead white guy? Does that mean I need to dismiss him entirely? Can't he be a part of those I'm influenced by?

Do labels work to serve the performance? Is using labels a distraction? Or should I lean in more and make it more interactive?

Do I think I'm better than basic bitches somehow? In what way? Why? How?

What IS Artistic Process?

I think we're too quick to label people. There's more to people than a quick label. Either nobody is basic, or everybody is basic.

Am I doing it right?

How does this Research Catalogue work?

I'm also influenced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge who's a modern day writer. But can't I be influenced by both?

Will I come across as a labelling snooty bitch? Will the audience perceive the exact opposite of what I want to say?

Is there a right?

I'm also influenced by my mother, my sister, my auntie, my girlfriends, my husband, my male friends, my intersex friends, my community, other theatremakers...

Can I do it wrong?

I mean, I do, but... do I want to have it on here? It's not great quality...

Or videos...

Or audio

I don't really have any photos!

How do I make this funny? Am I funny? Funny as a scriptwriter?

What's more basic,

white or pink?

Why is this text box here?