Video of a script on gender roles - 2016
From frustration with current norms for and ideas about gender roles, the need to make people experience Cognitive Dissonance became a necessity. In Roles Reversed the ‘woman’ as well as the ‘man’ get their own and each other’s roles. In playing the script out the actor would feel uneasy as the roles reverse as they are playing dominance and how we envision and expect women and men to be. Playing with the two extremes the audience also experiences some feelings of Cognitive Dissonance as one is trying to make sense out of fiction and reality.