We began the session with our 10 minutes of focusing on our reflections, during this time 3 women came in to the toilets so it was the first time for us to get responses from those not in our class or from tutors. Surprisingly, the women ignored us which in itself is a response. We now know that we need to do more to frame our performance.

The following task we played around with was using raspberries as both lipstick and blusher. We crushed the berries and then applied them to our faces. During this time, a few more women wandered in and we managed to get more of a response this time through their facial expressions. A woman with her child used her body as a type of shield so the child wouldn’t notice what we were doing, the woman also gave us a disgusted look whilst others looked more bemused and curious.

We now understand that we need to frame our performance and will be exploring the use of a performance text, inspired by Karen Finley.