During the process of this performance we had to ask many people what their thoughts were of our chosen site and what memories they had of this site. Many responses were positive with a few being critical in terms of placing as there's a primary school nearby so we were told to be aware of what we were saying, the time we would be saying it and how loud. One individual said 'It's an amazing site, the things you can do with it is beyond me. Only problem is children walk by and because your piece is about rape it could be really frightening for them and their parents could complain'. As a really valid comment we acted on it and decided to change the time of the performance, making it early in the afternoon rather than later. The memories that the site brings to students, particularly the ones who were in Year 10 really treasure the site as the wall is covered with hand prints of different colours that they created and to them the site is a really important thing in their school life.
Recently we have found many things in our site that actually link to our performance and we also had the grass on the outside to represent this feeling of a country side as this piece is based in York. With this we would be able to have a real feel of relation to this play and to also give the audience a real feeling of us inviting them to this place. This would definitely break the fourth wall.
The painting of hands on the white wall symbolised the children being lost in this tragic happening and perhaps a subliminal cry for help message. Also the flight of stairs can show the couples rise and how they got the children to do what they wanted and how at the end the had to descend back down to show their fall and arrest.
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