Pitch Idea - Couldn't post it on the Google Doc

You’re in a pit, 5 feet deep with your feet suffocating under the muddy waters where you slept in the night before. Above you, are the cries of dying men and zips of light going at incredible speeds with bombs following in their presence. 

The big bombs act as your blanket, covering you and your brothers in warm soil and boiling blood. You cower in your foxhole, waiting for the next bomb to go off that’ll make you think about the chances of the next one landing on your position. 

You pick up your rifle and shoot it off into the distance, wondering whether or not you had just taken a man’s life. You feel somewhat safe, knowing that civilisation still exists back at home with your friends and families. 

Knowing that your wife is having a nice coffee on the porch, reading about you and your brothers in the papers, wondering if you’re thinking about her as well. 

You are dragged back into reality as a bomb goes off next to your foxhole. 

Luckily, your head was down low smothering the bloodied soil. 

Your partner next to you, isn’t so lucky though. 

You see him coughing up blood, choking on it, spattering what seems to be words that seem foreign to you. 

You keep his head low, making an effort to help him avoid something that’s inevitable. 

You assure him, lie to him, tell him that everything will be fine, you know that this is not the case. 

Look down, and then back up, just to see that his eyes have rolled back into his skull. 

The screaming, has stopped. 

You stop.

• I would have one actor sitting in front of the audience reading this poem
• The sounds would match the timing of when he would say things (Eg. bomb sound goes off when he mentions the shells raining down on the soldiers)
• Sand and mud fall from the ceiling - onto the actor
• wires from the ceiling are electric - shoot sparks when the gun sounds go off
• Silence - will be the key element - When the actor stops talking, everything stays silent
• The room will go black at once at various different times of the play - Audience will have no sense of where they are.
• The actor is free to move around behind the audience members
• No music - White noise.
• Simple lighting