Ideas

James' idea: James had an idea on a transition from Auschwitz being liberated to the Nuremburg trials (courtroom scene). He thought that maybe we could sort the audience in Pod 1A into male and female and then lead them into the scene dock where they would then be effectively 'gassed'. From there the doors would then be opened and they would be led into the HUB where they would be standing looking into the trail of James' character (Benedick/Franz) with a rope hanging from the grid like a noose. As Becs and myself discussed this, we thought that moving the audience from the blackout pod into the scene dock, through the corridor is quite a nice idea; going from dark -> light -> darkness again perhaps could represent uncomfortable -> hope -> fear. We want to test this idea with some people just to see if it is too harsh or dark for an external audience.
Furthermore, today James and myself began to look at the other gas chamber part where Hero/Helena's sister is sent to the gas chamber and is then saved by Benedick/Franz. Because we possibly would be moving the audience along with the cast within the scene we wanted to first try and think of the logistics of this before we put in material as this scene isn't one that you could just put anywhere and from a directing point of view, would be easier to direct once you know where and how.