The trip to Grantham helped us with the devising process, defining our ideas. We were shown around several empty shops as possible performance spaces and luckily we found one which inspired us. We had imagined using mirrors during the performance to relate to refraction and the shop already had a variety of mirrors fitted around the space. This was a huge positive for us and we could instantly see our piece being performed in this space.

We had also imagined using a shop window as a way of grabbing the audience’s attention. This particular shop made this idea possible as there is a ledge which is large enough to stand on and make us visible.

The shape of the room inspired us to have hidden parts of our performance, making the audience work to discover some parts of the piece.

Finally, we also liked the variety of hooks and rails around the space which we could use to hang things off. We aren’t entirely sure what that will be yet but I’m sure we will figure it out soon enough.