Nazi Speed-Dating

In this lesson we decided to look at our newspaper article which was the former head of the EDL becoming a member of a Muslim organisation. To do this we thought we would go back to 1938 and look at what it would be like if Hitler fell in love with a Jew namedly Anne Frank. We thought we would have Hitler doing some not see speed dating in Starbucks where he meets, a disabled person, a gay, black person and a Jew. We decided to make it Brechtian that we would have a black girl playing the Jew a white girl playing the black girl, and a girl playing the gay man. We scripted out little conversations between them and tried them several times. We also had possible idea of segregating the audience from black and white to make them think about the history and how they have moved on from that terrible time. We tried these ideas a few times however they did not sit particularly well, we did, on the other hand show them to jack, and he suggested that perhaps we might introduce the show and segregate the audience on their moment of entrance. He also suggested I may give a speech at the beginning saying that we would specify we allowed; no flash photography, no phones and no Jews in the auditorium. I thought this was very Brechtian and would add to the shock value of our scene and allow people to think.