... a lot of opportunity regarding the audience and their perceptions of fairytales, however, we discovered that fairytales didn't have enough in the way of a storyline or enough characters for it to be long enough, meaning that the story was too short once it had been adapted and we didn't have enough ideas to make it longer. We didn't want to start limiting ourselves at this stage so we discarded this idea and looked elsewhere. Research We started to look towards current affairs for inspiration, once we had discarded the idea of adapting a fairytale, and we focused on one of the main stories at the time, the situation in Zimbabwe with the president, Robert Mugabe and the white farmer. This led got us talking about the issue of racism, which we all felt held a lot of potential with regard to theatre. As we thought more about exploring the theme of ...

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