1. Opening shock: 3 People burst from the fire exist screaming ad libbed lines e.g. Down with Big Brother, The Party will crumble, Oceania is dying, The war is a lie. They run up to the audience begging support for the rebellion maybe handing out leaflets and in the general uproar guards run out of the same exit carrying them off kicking and screaming. Possibly one escapes but the rest are taken away. To split up the audience a group should be taken inside by the guards saying the need to forget what they saw. - 5 minutes total
2. Confessions: Either by speaker or by projector we hear the confessions of prisoners to crimes like, Pirating, Plotting against the state, Rape, Murder, Adultery. If we have it by video then we can project on a wall next to the tree. We can film it in sepia to give it a more sinister and disconnected feel. - 5 minutes total
3. Indoctrination Video: If we set up handheld projector (because we don't have a power source) we can film a video in a harsh black and white or sepia of a brain washing speech directed at the Children's spy organisation. Stuff like you are the future of Oceania and you must denounce thought criminals. They can be a section where Goldstein is mentioned and there can be an audible reaction e.g. shouting, praising big brother, clapping and crying. 7 minutes total
4. Spy Youth Song: We have a speaker system set up outside. Every so often the anthem could play out and all the Actors playing the spy youth stop and stand to attention and sing a long looking to the sky with national pride. 2 minutes total X 5
5. Teddy Bear Training: Clay will be handling the script for this segment. The leader of the Spy Youth will be doing a training session on how to torture and extract information from a thought criminal. Now this is to represent the loss of innocence within the society and can get really graphic which can include ripping heads of stomping on them and if were allowed to use dull knives even better. 10 minutes total
6. Public Hanging: As a climatic moment we are going to have an executioner read off the crimes of a single prisoner of war before an audience. The prisoner would be either be strong and silent or hysterical. We can borrow a ladder and the executioner will climb up the tree with the rope. If we distract the audience for a few seconds by getting them to turn around we can replace the prisoner with a mannequin and as the audience attention is somewhere else they could hear a blood curdling cry and as the turn back there brains would register the mannequin as the prisoner and be shocked while the actor crowd cheer! 10 minutes total
7. The Graffiti artist: A member of the cast could play a continuous character who is going around and defacing and painting over the INGSOC posters and pictures of big brother. Continuous.
8. Spy Youth Fitness Regime: A harsh tall and strong instructor leads a group of spy youth in a growling training exercise with bright lights shining on the them doing Push ups and learning to fight and maybe even facing mental and physical torment. 8 minutes total.
9. The Revolution: Finally the entire evenings work should grow and climax into the is one point were all the actors and audience are outside listening to a revolution rally and then with all the growing support for the brotherhood anarchy should break out and a full on riot is on the hands hopefully. There should be be a big brawl between party members and the rebels. 7 minutes total.
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