Once we got put into our groups we all put together our initial ideas. Our ideas included the concept of someone being convicted of a crime that they didn't do and being severely punished for it. Another topic we looked into was mental health issues such as PTSD from the war ect.. , obsessive possession and also memory loss. Once we got all of our ideas down we chose our favourites through the process of elimination and our most favourite idea was having a character being wrongly convicted of a crime.
For our set design, we have a vision of having a prison-like setting in the 18th-century Australian jungle as that was where many British prisoners were sent there in that era. The performance would be performed end on but with immersive moments. These immersive moments would be done by using the stairs going through the audience and also performing in the actual audience (keeping proxemics and the audience in mind). We would use sound effects when necessary, for example, nature-like sounds when creating the atmosphere of the jungle and noises such as ancient drums to add a cultural effect.
We came up with a few ideas for characters such as two prisoners, one young and one old, who both experience tough life and treatment within the prison and one of them will have been convicted of a crime that they have not commited.
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