Explore the impact of social, cultural and/or historical conditions upon the work.

Explore the impact of social, cultural and/or historical conditions upon the work.

        The main factor that inspired the play was the economic climate at the moment, we wanted to create something that is relevant to the present day that could be related to without being constricted into a time period, this creates a piece that could be anywhere, any time therefore creating an extended quality of ignorance. Other factors come from my personal opinion that as soon as an economy collapses then so does society, and that after this we revert back to the basic primal that is survival of the fittest.

        The impact of our stimulus, ‘The Falling Man’, is obviously huge. That image holds so much cultural and historical information that it is recognisable at first sight of its destination, date and the events of that day. The detail that defines it is the man falling, from this image we built up many ideas from fallen angels to our theme fall of the economy and society. We have reflected these factors throughout, the whole play is based on the said theme and we have even created our own falling man to tie in our them and plainly replicate the image, we show our falling man at both the beginning and end of the play. When approaching this stimulus we took a philosophical view that explored our way into our theme of the fall of the economy/society. This was shown through our want to depict our version of ‘The Falling Man’ alongside the plot; we wanted to make sure it was obvious that our ‘Falling Man’ was theoretical. This was trying to show that history repeats itself we’ve had our ‘Falling Man’ this decade but so will others and that we will all recede, eventually, when faced with the prospect of nothing we recede back to our primal instincts. This is what I think what will happen to the world if the economy collapses, there will be no society and therefore survival of the fittest will ensue.