Patrice Pavis says ‘A large part of the work has to do with researching a place, often an unusual one that is imbued with history or permeated with atmosphere’ (1998)

I really believe in this quote, as before a place becomes personal to you, you have to know its own personal history. You have to indulge yourself within it’s many paths which has led it to where it is now. What has happened here? Who have been here? What stories lay hidden within these streets? I think these are some of the questions which as a group we need to look into to help get our imaginative juices flowing, as once we have found an interesting aspect of Lincoln we can start towards bringing this to life through out project.

Having decided that we will defiantly be basing our performance on the history on Lincoln, we found an interesting background about Lincoln cathedral and the castle. That in the 1800’s ‘Lincoln was divided into two parts, known by the application of Above-hill and Below-hill, the former part is the general residnece of the gentry and clergy; while the latter is mostly inhabitad by merchants and tradespeople.’ (The History of Lincoln 1810)

This is the kind of imformation we have been looking for from the get go. This shows just how the divide has effected the type of people who live in each of these areas of Lincoln, and even their jobs.

But what exactly could we do performnce wise to show this?

Our idea so far is that we could create a tea party in both sections of Lincoln. Uphill we would have a middle-class tea party, with alcoholic drinks, maybe dancing to modern music. Whereas Downhill we would have a very demure, sensible tea party with little tea cups. We have decided to swap the social classes on their heads, as this will be more shocking to the public, seeing what they believe to be ‘proper’ for that particular area been acted out at the opposite end.