Actual Finalised Decision.

After weeks and weeks of discussing ideas and workshopping ideas, ironically we have actually gone with one of the first ideas that was initially brought to the table, which was the mental hospital idea, we have put a little spin on it however because of other ideas. We had the idea of Fort Amherst being a mental asylum. Within the asylum are various different mental patients, each suffering with different health issues. From audience perspective, they will be following the tour which is going around the Fort. It is lead by doctors who are showing round a psychiatric doctor, who is evaluating the patients and hospital. During the tour, the audience will learn the dark secrets behind the mental hospital, what horrors lie behind the doors, and how the doctors themselves don't treat the patients right. At the end, we had the creepy idea of the Doctors, (who are showing people around), actually turn out to be mental patients also, we feel this will be a creepy unexpected end to the tour, and will have a good effect on the audience.

We have had the ideas of the doctors being a bit physically forceful and mentally neglecting, towards the patients, for examp[le, in a workshop scene, we had Freya, who's character was a 5 year old trapped inside a 20 year olds body. She was constantly asking to play, The doctors started getting annoyed with her and ended up threatening her with the electric chair.

Along in the next workshop idea, we had a crazed man who thought he was the second coming of Jesus. And had about 5 mental patients praying in their own individual ways. After the doctors enter and explain the the psychiatric what each character is behaving like, The man who thinks he is jesus gets extremely weird with the doctors, demanding that he is the second coming, and that they are disturbing a house of peace.

The good thing about the idea and fort amherst, is that they link extremely well. There are lots of different tunnels with different characteristics, for example, one looks like a church, one looks like a big isolation room, we can study each room, and bring different ideas for each one, i feel this way we can come up with a really clever cut piece, that flows well and will be dynamic