We’ve gradually moved away from the “Fisherman Story” and started looking at something that we are all invested in – relationships! However, we were so attached to the Fisherman character he was carried through into our second idea. Having 8 actors in our company we’ve begun to develop four different couples and we want to explore “love in real life”. Our aim is to make the shift from the Hollywood blockbuster couple on the silver screen to the real life couple sitting on the sofa watching them. Instead of the Fisherman and his son we’re going to stage the Fisherman and his wife. It is important to our company that all of our characters are substantive and have therefore all brought in stories about our grandparents for material to develop these characters. We’ve described in our copy how our company intends to bring to the stage all the little moments in life and explore all the different things that make us who we are. We intend to create four separate storylines for each couple and we are going to explore different means of telling each story. For example, we would like to play with staging one couple in an upturned specially built bed frame where the audience will feel they have a bird’s eye view of the couple. This is also how we would pitch ourselves to Arts Council England (ACE) if we were applying for funding. We believe our show would appeal to a wide audience. We feel the subject matter would appeal to the ‘Dinner and a Show’ category while the different storytelling means would appeal to students and academics in the arts community. Based on our copy and ethos around staging individuality we came up the name Modus as in ‘modus operandi’. However, we received feedback in the seminar that the harsh sounding Latin word did not reflect our light and fun ensemble. After another week of discussing different names that might closer reflect our personality as a company. We have unanimously voted on ‘The Pin Hinge Collective’.