Stages, our first ideas as a group (done?)

The 5 stages of grief (Denial, Aggression, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance), are all people and live together in one shared house. The 3 episodes are all set in the houses front room. Denial and Acceptance have an underlying romance and the running joke is that you never see depression, he hides and you only ever hear his voice. Anger is constantly mocked by period jokes.

The first episode consists of the group coming back from a funeral of someone they all knew. When they return they realise that depression isn’t with them and they spent the first episode trying to find out where depression is. They decide to go outside and find him by splitting into groups, as they begin to break up the groups they start arguing about who will go with Acceptance as they all like her. They all try to impress her and convince her, turning the argument into a competition, after anger tries and tries to get them back on track Anger storms out, finding Depression on the step outside, locked out the whole time.

The second episode is focusing more on Anger, she gets into a fight and ends up going to therapy for anger management and the other characters try to break her from her new calm state. As Anger keeps her cool everyone else starts to get more annoyed and the house starts to fall apart as their characters get angry. They finally realise what’s going on they and try to make Anger angry again. Bargaining decides to sell Angers favorite lamp, we see a flashback of Anger as a child with the lamp having fun times together, when they tell her she finally loses it.

The third episode is when the characters realise they cannot afford to pay their rent and they need to find a way to get money. While they all try and think of get money quick schemes, bargaining is off on the side selling most of their furniture on ebay, as the group talk, we see close ups of their faces as they talk and when we return to the wide shots we see the removal men carrying stuff out and the room get slowly emptier. The landlady turns up and tells them they have to leave because she has new tenants. Acceptance, Denial, Anger and bargaining all pack up and leave. The new tenants turn up with their stuff and sit down (One has Angers lamp) and we end on the new characters sitting there and depressions voice coming from the cupboard.

The interactive aspect of our live show is that the characters all have Twitter/ Facebook accounts which they actively use during the show, posting their thoughts on the situation. The posts are out of the show time as well as if the characters really exist. Bargaining also has an ebay page on whih we actually auction parts of the set.