Exploring Ideas:

During our lesson today we were asked to brainstorm possible ideas for us to explore and play around with in the coming weeks to help navigate in which direction we want the play to be set. 

We came up with the following ideas: 

- feminism 

- mistrust of females in that era 

- persecution 

- gothic / supernatural twist 

- 30's / 40's music 

- live juxtaposing music 

- audience participation 

- homosexuality 

- prejudice 

- gender bending roles 

- narration use 

We also liked the idea that James came up with, which was to use a real life story that happened in during WW2 set in Auschwitch. This story was very similar to the relationship between Claudio and Hero and included the forbidden love and twisted ending, loss of relationship but freedom of persecution and prejudice.