Aequitas Theatre Company

Be honest. What is it you dislike about your body? Hate your nose? Your thighs? Do you feel like you need more muscles? Longer legs? Different hair? Everyone has hang ups about how they look but is it us or the photoshopped idealized images of society? And what happens when we find out that our idols have the same problems we do?

Aequitas Theatre Company presents What's Your Issue: a one hour dramatic comedy about our obsession with the ideal body as portrayed by the media. Throughout the play, the characters struggle with their body image. There's Melissa, also known as Liss, getting her first big break, who can't handle when her pictures are altered. There's Karina and her boyfriend Justin who base their self-perception (and their relationship) on magazines. And there's the photographer, Danni, who perpetuates the stereotype, all while struggling with her own concerns about her weight. It all comes together in the next issue of Sabine, the hottest new magazine out there.

Rachael Bellis and Tom Hartwell are teaming up to write, following Bellis's run of Conversations From The Web in last year's fringe and Hartwell's You Tweet My Face Space, which will be performed in Edinburgh shortly before this piece. Sophia Start will return to direct, having previously directed Conversations From The Web, Measure for Measure, and Merchant of Venice. What's Your Issue will continue Aequitas's use of mixed media by using a large projector screen to get a close up view of the characters' perceived flaws.