Idea One:
the lead is diagnosed with a terminal illness and the play is about how they cope with it until they die but also about how their family and friends cope during and after their death.
Idea Two:
The entire cast is diagnosed with a terminal illness and the play is how each of them cope with it, fight it/suicide/live life to the fullest etc.
After going back to school everyone liked the idea but weren't comfortable scrapping our old idea for this new one, so we incorporated the idea in a way. For our performance we will have a timer occasionally appear on the back wall/ceiling that is counting down. when the timer hits zero that is when Freya kills us all and we find out the countdown was how long she was willing to let us live.
We improved on the sleeping friendship scene that we created lest year. we changed it so we all are asleep then one by one we stand up and explain our story of how and why we ended up fighting Jamie. This forced us to create back stories for our characters and helped us develop them.
My back story is that I was working as an officer in the army but the Jamie took over and started to force us to kill civilians, I refused and was threatened to do it or my family will be killed so I gave up arguing and went on the mission. I went in killed everyone before they could react and fight back but afterwards I found out that it was my family I was sent to kill, I realized I killed my family. So I ran from the house and kept on running until I came across a little band of people planning on taking Jamie down and I signed up and helped them the best I could and supplied them with as much information I had, I was a turning point in this rebellion.
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