Ground floor:
Present day, Brenda's book launch.
First platform:
Brenda as a child, around age 3/4, about the year 1928. This is the introduction of her brother into her life and the story. This establishes the relationship between herself and her brother, instantly planting the seed of their relationship right at the beginning of the story. This is also the beginning of the story unraveling itself.
Transition:
Before the audience walk up the stairs, Chloe and Andrea stomp up as if they were in the army and then stomp back down. This is to introduce the aspect of war into the piece - it also incorporates the straight lines created on the wall by the formation of the bricks.
Second platform:
Brenda as a teenager, around 15/16, about the year 1940. The story is followed up onto the next level, as the audience move upwards, more is revealed. This is the introduction pf the issue introduced into the story - the whole point of Brenda telling her tale. She urges her brother to go to war as she believes it was the right thing to do to make her country. This is inevitably what sticks to her and haunts her throughout her life.
Transition:
Paralleling what Chloe and Andrea carried out previously, Chloe and Tia now walk up the stairs as if they were members of the army but then get shot halfway there. This is to show that the brother dies during the war - they then jump up and sporadically keep repeating "brother?, have you seen my brother?", this is to begin to show her pain.
Third platform:
Brenda as an adult, around 30, about the 1955. She is obsessively writing letters to her brother as she can not seem to get over the guilt from the events previously. Her pain is too great. This is to show how the events from the previous stage have followed her through her life.
Transition:
Each stage of Brenda sitting on the stairs, writing. This is to show the aspect of writing the story that all leads to the next stage. One by one, youngest to oldest, they have to use the bar to pull themselves up the stairs, to show how much effort she has to put in to grow - this is incorporating the site's offers into our piece.
Fourth & Final platform:
Brenda age 90. She's finally come to piece with the part she played in her brother's death by recording it down and telling her story, she's finally in a place to be able to talk to people about it and share it with the world.
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