Samuel Robinson

In the last few weeks we have discovered that the Lawn has been bought by the coffee company Stocks. They are looking into creating a café and theatre/ arts centre. At first, we thought that this would complicate matters` because of the building work going on. Through discussions with the owners of the building, we can still use the building by working around the building work going on at the time. The news of the refurbishment made us rethink our ideas to include the resent history and the future of the Lawn. Doing this we will having to symbolise the passing of time, we have thought of doing this by using newspapers with information about the Lawn and to make them look period. The period between the end the Lawn was being used as offices to it sale, shows its absence of purpose and its emptiness.

We have changed our plans from touring around the building, meeting characters along the way, to sitting in a coffee shop with the audience as the characters. The audience will hear the stories of the whilst that character is sat opposite them. This change in plans has moved us to change the location of our performance to a coffee shop owned by stocks. This is to show the movement of the trace of the lawn and the perspective of the changing use.

The idea for future performance will be based on what the owners have planned for the buildings future. One of the plans is to create a theatre up stairs. These ideas will be incorporated into the performance along with the fiction of what is going to happen and what will happen.

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  1. Sam, you need to check your spelling – Stokes coffee shop – not Stocks, recent and not resent.
    You make some lovely statements, such as; “it’s absence of purpose and its emptiness” and I think you should explore this further. What can you take from the readings to discuss the ideas of absence, purpose or emptiness?
    Clumsy syntax means your sentences don’t always make sense – “the audience will hear the stories of the whilst…”
    Check your work for careless mistakes. It would be a shame for this carelessness to cloud your good ideas.

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