Site specific: Day  7

Today, we began to work on the storyline of our idea. It took a long time to decide where we wanted to go with it, we discussed various ideas about the power struggle. Was it a war that caused it, or something political. We didn't decide on what though.

Instead we discussed where we would go with the story. Perhaps the fort is an evacuation point to allow those chosen ones to get out of the county to a mysterious, secret better place. But how would we show this?

We thought up a few stimulus ideas to help get some pieces going. We got split into groups and asked to come up with a piece on that idea. Our groups stimulus was relationships. Obviously it's easy to think of the normal heterosexual relationship between a boy and girl and their love drives each other on. But that would be boring. So we thought up the idea of two brothers and a sister, trying to evacuate the fort. But as the sister is in a wheelchair, she is rejected as she isn't deemed worthy or useful. Yet another person is allowed to evacuate straight away, leaving the brothers with a dilemma of staying with the sister, forcing her on or leaving her behind. Which we didn't get the chance to develop.

I think that now we are beginning to work on our idea, we are moving in the right direction, and I can begin to feel ourselves making progress, as slow as it is. Once we get to see the fort, I think it will trigger a slightly more creative edge to us, allowing more depths ideas to take place. The last thing we want is a cheesy, unimaginative, 15 year old style performance. We need to think carefully, but now we have a direction that we all see together, I think the performance will start to form from here.