A series of actions intrigues the audience; each action draws them into the evolving performance. They are asked to understand and help. They become more than a group of strangers watching a show they become complicit in it and ultimately have to decide how the performance will end. With their help we construct a four meter high, tower of metal buckets. The tower contains 120 buckets and will have a volunteer, selected from the audience, walled up inside as part of this process.
The volunteer for this role is a performer from the host festival or city who will be rehearsed and trained by the company before the performance. They will be given instruction in the safety and structure of the piece. It will not be obvious to the audience that the volunteer has any prior knowledge of their involvement. They will apparently have been chosen at random from among the audience.
When the tower has been completed cords are attached to the base and passed to four members of the circle of spectators giving them the power to collapse the tower.
The audience members have to decide what to do, pull the rope and collapse the tower?
The final decision ‘pull or not’ is literally in their hands.
- Self contained
- No technical support required
- Two people on the road
- An opportunity for a local performer
- Duration 40 mins
- Funded by Arts Council England and supported by 101 creation centre, GDIF and Bath Fringe
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