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This lesson we chose an idea from our brainstorm in groups and created a small piece to explore the idea. My group decided to create an interactive kind of performance following the mental patient idea. We chose to do have all of the patients sitting on chairs dotted around the room and then have a doctor bring the audience in, explaining to them that the patients were temporarily immobilised so that they would not move. It was interactive as the audience were spread in between all of the patients who weren't supposed to move but do, surprising the audience. Dan found a song called 'Seven Devils' which was creepy and really fitted the piece so we added some movement on our chairs that was simple but looked effective. Basically our idea is to involve the audience as much in our performance and enclose them in the mental place, this should create a great atmosphere especially in a location like Fort Amherst.

When we showed this to the other group they said it was really effective and although simple did well to create an atmosphere, even though we were just in a darkened classroom, so I think it will work very well in the Fort Amherst location. After performing we thought of having the current doctor sit down and one of the other patients take over the role and the control of the audience, so they will not know if it was a real doctor or not. We thought if we repeat this role switch after each scene we will create confusing and intrigue as to who the real doctor is, or if there is in fact one at all, which adds to the insanity.