We had an idea, to stage moments in history using technology all in order to show certain aspects of these moment that couldn’t be seen at the time. The lead example of this would be recreating Marylyn Monroe’s ‘Happy birthday Mr President’ performance (the moment of history) after showing a live feed of her backstage taking pills (the way in which technology could uncover things we haven’t seen before). Everyone jumped on board and went into writing up/ coming up with their own scenes/ ideas. In the end we had a list which contained; The Zodiac killer, Jack the ripper, Richard the third, WW2, 9/11, the moon landing, the JFK assassination and many more. At first we considered staging these as separate vignettes, yet we decided upon creating a plot that could act as a through line through so it might be a little more cohesive to follow. What we noticed was that many of these idea all contained the theme of conspiracy so this lead us to come up with the idea that this plot should be two (or more) people attempting to recreate the conspiracy’s in order to shed some new light on them. Really we wanted the show to be a discussion of conspiracy on a whole, using these examples to illustrate our points. What was a large debate that went on when moulding this idea was will we be playing fictional characters that we have made up or not. Personally I saw us playing versions of ourselves like in Gob Squad’s Revolution Now! Or even such as in Flickbook Theatre’s Three words. Therefore we can enter and tell the audience directly our ideas and thoughts/ making them aware that this is a show whilst also being able to get away with seemingly recreating what we want at our own will by stating something like; “well look at the Richard the third conspiracy…”. On the topic of Revolution Now! By Gob squad, I see this show following a similar style by being a show that explores the theme of conspiracy rather than attempting to uncover it. The way that they did with the theme of revolution. However one thing that I would like to avoid, something that Revolution Now! did, was laugh off actual debates of revolution. In one part of the show a member of the group took to the streets and interviewed members of the public (in order to hear ‘what the people want’). Mostly their participants were shy and making light of the topic matter. However one participant, a man in a black cab, did start speaking about (what he believed) to be the problems with the concept of revolution his ideas were dismissed and not mentioned again. Instead the group found another quite shy participant to act how he was told in order to fit into the ending they wanted, therefore completely undermining the basic idea of revolution all together. I want our show to be an exploration and investigation of the subject matter rather than an outright mission to make fun of the concept.