Cabur and Cavallini really feel it is very important middle ladies’s experiences on this present for a mess of causes, not least that they themselves are ladies navigating the digital divide in their very own lives. For instance, whereas the international loneliness epidemic just isn’t restricted to ladies, over half of the 142 nations polled in a latest Meta-Gallup survey self-reported the next fee of loneliness in ladies than in males, and social media use is an indeniable contributing issue. The < 3 G E N Project will contact on this and different results of our digital period and intends to start out real-life conversations by placing these social phenomena middle stage.
The improvement course of for The < 3 G E N Project consists of three components: information gathering, processing, and staging. Cabur and Cavallini, in collaboration with two different therapists, have developed a questionnaire that can function the first mode of accumulating tales. This questionnaire will probably be disseminated in numerous codecs to make it accessible to as many individuals as doable, together with through this Google Form, in-person interviews, and on TikTok. (Readers are welcomed and inspired to submit their tales!) Similar to different documentary theatre processes, like Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements sequence or work by The Civilians, these interviews will present a useful databank for crafting characters, writing dialogue, and creating the themes current within the present.
The interview is crafted to information members on an emotional journey that leaves them feeling nearer to their members of the family than once they began. Cabur says, “Dramatically speaking, it would be better for me, as a playwright, to ask them, ‘Tell me your family secrets, talk to me about your issues with them, do you have any resentments towards them?’ But we’re not doing that, we don’t want them to leave the interview with those feelings.” Instead, the questions immediate respondents to replicate on comfortable reminiscences with their members of the family, implementing the present ties between them.
Both Cabur and Cavallini see the consequences of the digital divide of their private lives. Living removed from her mom and sister, Cabur sees how troublesome it may be for her eight-year-old son to develop relationships with members of the family he primarily visits by means of a display. “Instead of technology being something that helps us connect as a family or as a society, it frustrates us as it draws us further apart,” Cabur says. Although Cavallini lives geographically nearer to her dad and mom, she nonetheless observes how expertise preferences between the generations in her household are out of sync, which poses a problem for closeness. While Cavallini appreciates the velocity at which she will talk data through textual content whereas multitasking, for instance, her dad and mom nonetheless wish to discuss on the cellphone. “Their need to use the phone to communicate is a way for me to stop and be present with them,” Cavallini says.
In part two, Cabur and Cavallini will assessment the information they’ve gathered and create two byproducts: the present, and a booklet with workout routines and actions for ladies to do with their households to strengthen their bonds. The actions will probably be tailor-made to members of every of the three teams: grandmothers, moms, and daughters. Cabur and Cavallini intend for these instruments to be broadly relevant to any ladies hoping to strengthen their household relationships, not simply those that have participated within the interviews or attended the present.
We wish to recreate within the theatre the best way you expertise life in your family. We will create three totally different worlds, one for every character, and if the viewers desires to expertise the opposite two, they’ll solely see them sideways.
Finally, in part three, Cabur and Cavallini will mount the present, which will probably be a hybrid stay and digital theatre efficiency. Although they’re ready till they’ve accomplished the interviews to start out creating the characters, they’ve a transparent image of how the staging will perform, with the ambition of centering the Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter all as the primary character. In order to take action, a round stage will probably be surrounded by three seating banks: one seating financial institution for all members of the viewers closest in age to the Grandmother, one for these closest in age to the Mother, and one for these closest in age to the Daughter. Interspersed between these three seating banks will probably be three giant screens, so that every viewers group’s view of the stage will culminate in a sectional display backdrop.