An Intervention
by Nina Harding
1. Setting
1.1. 3 Locations
1.2. An Apartment- A's Home
1.3. An Art Gallery or Museum
1.4. A Pub
2. Politics and Context
2.1. middle eastern civil war
2.2. British Intervention
2.3. Personal and Politic related. Personal is Political
2.4. Syria? or Iraq?
2.4.1. Most likely Syria as this war began 2011
2.5. Purposefully Vague about events and politics
2.6. Dramaturgically are the events described correct...
3. Connotations
3.1. physical and imposing
3.2. verbal ping pong
3.3. perspective
3.4. 2 sides
4. Initial Ideas
4.1. Curtains
4.1.1. Taut
4.1.2. corrugated Material to mimic a curtain fold
4.1.3. concealing
4.1.4. privacy
4.1.5. proscenium arch
4.1.6. transparency
4.2. Boxing Ring
4.3. Circularity
4.4. enlarged furniture or a smaller scale world
4.5. scale
4.6. revolving or pulling a central focus
4.7. levels- moral highground
4.8. blues and reds
5. Atmospheres
5.1. Fluidity
5.2. intense- discomfort
5.3. vast/public
5.4. intimate and private
5.5. lighthearted- comedy
5.6. hasty- quick fire dialogue
5.7. tension
6. Themes
6.1. Friendship
6.1.1. strong bonds.
6.2. relationships
6.3. conflict
6.3.1. war
6.3.2. friendship
6.3.2.1. mirrored civil war.
6.3.3. personal- internal battles?
6.4. interventions
6.4.1. on a friendship level and politically
6.5. politics
6.6. taking sides
6.6.1. perspective
6.6.1.1. Distance
6.6.1.1.1. distancing from each other
6.6.1.1.2. distance from the reality of war
6.6.1.1.3. distance from coming to terms with personal problems