Broken Ground @ The Arthouse: Early Design Sketches

We've begun planning how the Arthouse project may work in May. It's very early stages and we're keen to document as much of the process as possible so we can see what ideas we had when and how things have changed. Having had a walk around the space last week, we're now planning what ideas we have and where they may work. Above is a very early draft that we'll be looking at in rehearsal this week.


We're playing with the idea that each of the performances has an over-the-top, bombastic title in the vein of Yorkshire Black Metallers Bal Sagoth (We've never heard their music but the song titles are incredible; "Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the Moonless Depths of Night-Dark Seas)" anyone?). And so...


Happiness is an Object Shaped By Its Passage Through Space and Time

Measuring peoples happiness on their journey along a corridor, creating interactions that may make people happier or sadder and then indexing them on the chart that runs alongside them on the wall. We might offer people money or chocolate or the opportunity to not watch professional wrestling with us.


Look At Me! It's For Your Own Good

A parade of useful and less useful suggestions to help our audience live better, fuller, happier lives. 

In Which Science Is Misrepresented, Taken Out Of Context and Discredited 

Bad maths, bad science and as many geographical fallacies as we can think of (With low-fi propaganda in favour of the arts).


Kind Words Written On Dirty Paper

The things that make people happy, hung up in public for all to see.

A Place To Tell Stories, Make Things and Exert One's Self Physically

A top table of sorts. Where the good stuff goes to get tried out.

Of course, all this could have changed by next week. We may have had better ideas. We may try these ideas and realise that they don't work. We may just sack it all off and get a job in Rumbelows (Disclaimer: We will not be sacking it all off and getting a job in Rumbelows).

If we haven't indexed you yet, we still want to know:

Where Are You From?

It would be great to hear from someone from Greenland, None-Greenlanders are very welcome though.

How Happy Are You On a Scale Of 1-100?

How Rich Are You On a Scale Of 1-100?

As in, Bill Gates is 100/100 on the rich scale. Bankers are probably about 70/100. Most people aren't doing quite so well.

What Makes You Happy, Other Than Money?

Come on, there must be something. Nitrous Oxide?

What's Going On In Greenland That They're Not Telling Us About?

Can you get wi-fi in an igloo? Is it PC to say igloo? Just how ignorant are we?

You can leave your answers i the comments section, find BROKEN GROUND THEATRE on facebook or email us @ brokengroundhappinessindex@yahoo.co.uk