My initial ideas from the humanity in crisis stimulus was to be entirely controversial but still have a hard hitting effect on the audience allowing them to leave the performance with some things to think about but also having enjoyed themselves.
I had the original idea of concentrating on the crisis of mental health issues and how people with mental health issues were treated in times before the true understanding of how mental illnesses occur and how they can be treated.
I wanted to start out with a all black stage and a sinister soundscape of the typical scary assumptions of a mental health hospital and afterwards move into the darker truth of how the true monsters are the staff not the patients.
Other members of the group also all came up with ideas and we subsequently decided to create a stylised piece of many different subjects all with a connecting feature and we had many ideas.
WW2, Suffragettes, Women on the front line and ect.
I thought this stylised, mash up of different snippets would achieve the effect on the audience that I really wanted and we could be really creative by changing between realism and complete stylised piece to really break the fourth wall, Brecht style, and then sometimes really tone down and become really realistic and make the audience feel as if what they are watching is real.
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