ORDER ORDER

ORDER ORDER


5 bodies scattered around 4 tables. 1 moving spot, 4 fixed around areas, 1 spot fixed in front of cage. Birdies to be hung above cage? Upturned buckets needed in front of cage.


ACT 1

AUDIENCE IN WITH USHERS, PLACE WINE, PROGRAMMES ON TABLES, PIANO PLAYS

MOVING LIGHT ON LEAH, SINGS TO INTRODUCE PERFORMANCE – MOVED DOWNSTAIRS WITH USHERS TO MARIONETTE POSITION – INTRODUCES CLAIRE – LIGHT OFF LEAH, ATTACH VELCRO

CLAIRE ACT – MOVE TO MARIONETTE TO INTRODUCE ANDREA…

ANDREA (LOUISE ASSISTS HER TO MARIONETTE POSITION) INTRODUCES VERITY.. VERITY JOINS US

LIGHT ON MARIONETTES, HEAD HUNG. ‘AWAKE’ ON YOUR FIRST NOTE – ARMS MOVE ON FIRST NOTES. FLOP TO END.

BLACKOUT


ACT 2

TRANSITION TO CAGE – KIM AND LEWIS MOVE US BACKWARDS AND START WITH LEAH AND VERITY ON OUTSIDE OF CAGE, THEN ANDREA AND LOUISE; BOTH MEN LIFT CLAIRE. THEY RETURN TO BACK DOOR – WHITE NOISE DURING THIS PERIOD

LIGHTS UP IN CAGE AND 30 SECONDS OF SILENCE. LIT – WHITE/BLUE ON PIANO.

‘MUSIC BOX’ MUSIC BEGINS.

SILENCE IN CAGE WITH EITHER FOCUSED MOVEMENTS – SOIL – WATER

CHANTING? WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN DEATH?

CHILD VOICE – POEM? WITH SOIL EXPERIMENT?

BLACKOUT AND STROBE..


ACT 3

..STROBE AS VINCENZI BEGINS – PROJECTION nb projector on floor, glow tape AND LIVE - AS WE MOVE OFF CAGE INTO SPACE IN FRONT – WHITE NOISE HEARD

STROBE CUTS AS WE ARE IN ALL POSITION – SPOT TO REPLACE STROBE

AS VINCENZI IS COMPLETED –STROBE ATTACK – VELCRO UNLEASHED – HOISTED BY USHERS BACK TO INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS

SPOT ON LOUISE – WHERE TBC – NEAR BATH! .. COLD SONG

ALL SPOTS ONSTAGE UP – VERITY WORMS IN SOIL, AS CLAIRE RECITES TEXT BACKWARDS, ANDREA FALLS

LEAH’S EPILOGUE CUTS ACTION – LAST VERSE AS ENSEMBLE?

BUSKING AND EXIT