Research

I was researching into inspiration for our piece and I remembered a book that someone suggested I read a long time ago. This book was 1984 by George Orwell. I decided to research this as a stimuli for the group and I found some common themes.

Censorship

A major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four is censorship, especially in the Ministry of Truth, where photographs are doctored and public archives rewritten to rid them of "unpersons" (i.e., persons who have been arrested, whom the Party has decided to erase from history). On the telescreens figures for all types of production are grossly exaggerated (or simply invented) to indicate an ever-growing economy, when the reality is the opposite. One small example of the endless censorship is when Winston is charged with the task of eliminating reference to an un-person in a newspaper article. He proceeds to write an article about Comrade Ogilvy, a fictional party member, who displayed great heroism by leaping into the sea from a helicopter so that the dispatches he was carrying would not fall into enemy hands.

Surveillance
The inhabitants of Oceania, particularly the Outer Party members, have no real privacy. Many of them live in apartments equipped with two-way telescreens, so that they may be watched or listened to at any time. Similar telescreens are found at workstations and in public places, along with hidden microphones. Written correspondence is routinely opened and read by the government before it is delivered. The Thought Police employ undercover agents, who pose as normal citizens and report any person with subversive tendencies. Children are encouraged to report suspicious persons to the government, and some even denounce their parents. Surveillance controls the citizenry and the smallest sign of rebellion, even something so small as a facial expression, can result in immediate arrest and imprisonment. Thus, citizens (and particularly party members) are compelled to obedience.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Themes

These themes are both common in are performance so I decided to use these as my main inspiration in suggestions. Such as the idea of complete censorship of the war that is described in the first news report. The war is described as being ended and all civilians saved by 'Jamie' when the truth behind the story is that 'Jaime' started the war to gain control.
The other theme of surveillance we used as well; 'Jaime' had set up cameras everywhere and this is the main method of surveillance but the other method is that Jaime is the leader of the rebel group disguised as Sam. This is the next level of surveillance because she is the leader of the only group of people who are trying to regain the old way of life.