After going away and writing our own monologues we grouped together and read what each of us had written. Coincidentally we each created events that occurred in a park. Already we had subconsciously created a thread that bound each of the texts together. We decided to develop this and create more links between the characters and the situations they find themselves in. The aim of doing this was to keep the audience guessing and keep them interested as the plot twists and turns as each person is accused.
We took this a step further by making the audience member the protagonist of the piece; they would lead the investigation and ultimately find out who is guilty. For this we took influence from Blast Theory and Gobs Squad as they both use the public within their performances to lead and very much be a part of their performance.
An awareness and worry was raised at just how much we were going to rely on the audience. We felt that creating a script was the ideal way to regain some control as this way we would at least know what they were going to ask and we could have set responses.
Improvised sections are also written in the script in which tasks are set for the audience to complete such as the searching of the contents of bags and the searching of finding items in the space.
Below a link can be found to a PDF of the script. This includes each of the characters and ‘Mobile’. ‘Mobile’ stands for the member of the audience who will answer the phone and then lead the investigation.
Click to open script – Dream_Reality_Script
By Nina Woods
