Present: Yaz, Tom, Mic, Alan, Haroun

Ideas:

• Time repeating (15 min blocks?)

• Keep the geography and look of TBT and Actor’s Centre roughly

• But it is now a more important place in society

  • e.g. first performance in 10 years about to be performed

  • hosts important conferences etc.

• People can follow ‘paths of trade’ (like in Zelda) - one person wants something, in return they give you what another person wants

• People are looking for people and the audience reunite them

• SIDES

  • when you meet someone they encourage you to do tasks for them

  • other will give you conflicting tasks

  • you have to choose a side

  • others will choose other sides, so things can be achieved, then undone, then done again etc.

—>Allegiances, spies, allies

- audience can form groups or go it alone

- but we want to retain a distinction between actors and audience (except in some cases)

—> impassioned speeches by actors to get people onside

• People make moral choices (they need to be in groups to do this, so others can judge them)

• Want to bring people together at certain times - whilst still allowing them to go somewhere else if they wish

  • difference between them being told to form groups and doing it naturally

  • (e.g. 5 minute call brings people into the auditorium)

• If no breaking character or explanation then how do you get people to roam freely and talk to people

• Want to make it a believable world with believable characters who have real needs/wants - impress people with genuinely good performances

• Suggestion of making it the scene of a play about to be performed

  • we start 15 minutes before the show begins but just as it’s about to, time reverts back

  • one of the understudies wants to injure one of the main actors to get their part

  • audience might end up onstage or in audience