Art – Patriarchy – Female friendships

Why were there no great female artists?
History will call them something different. Muses, mistresses, wives.

It is late 19th century and we play the women around a great male genius.
He is mostly off screen, busy elsewhere. We are the ones surrounding him. His wife and his mistress, her sister, his pupil. Attractive women. His biographer will call us “his affairs”.

We are supposed to hate each other, being rivals for his attention. Maybe they told you too what they told us as children – that girls can’t play three, because girls always compete? Depending on who wrote our story, we might be a deceived wife, a homewrecker, the other woman and a naïve girl getting victimised by the great male genius and his libido.
But that is not at all how we remember it.

“Other Women” is a scenario about sisterhood, friendship and some great female artists.
It is about creating, art and getting the possibility to take oneself seriously as an artist.
It is about the trappings of womanhood and how they limit female artists. It is about sex.
It is about seeing and being seen.

The game is about developing the relationships between these women and how they grow to like, love and support each other.

Duration: 4 hours

Four women surrounding a Great Male Genius. In the history books, they will seem like rivals. Muses. Affairs. His wife and his mistress, her sister, his pupil.

That is, however, only a fragment of the real story.

The four women are left in the kitchen, and while they clean up, they start to talk. About creating art and taking oneself seriously; about the trappings of womanhood and the limitations on women; about sex. About seeing, and being seen.

Other Women is a scenario about developing the relationships between these women; about art, sisterhood, friendship, and some great, female artists.