Our Site - The Lift
The Lift
We have chosen the lift adjacent to the TTA department to be our chosen site for many reasons. The low buzzing sound of the lights provides an eerie feel as well as the depleted materials that are part of site such as chipping paint and a broken light bulb. All of these factors add to the site’s feeling of danger and vulnerability which drives our piece.
Our piece is site generic as we are exploring a freak accident that occurred in 1903 when a lift dropped six stories containing seventeen people.
Stimulus
We have chosen the lift adjacent to the TTA department to be our chosen site for many reasons. The low buzzing sound of the lights provides an eerie feel as well as the depleted materials that are part of site such as chipping paint and a broken light bulb. All of these factors add to the site’s feeling of danger and vulnerability which drives our piece.
Our piece is site generic as we are exploring a freak accident that occurred in 1903 when a lift dropped six stories containing seventeen people.
Stimulus
"On the night of May 22, 1903, in Pittsburgh, PA, a large group of mostly young people who attended the Pennsylvania Electric Mechanical Institute were having a celebration party on the fifth and sixth floors of the Donnelley building. About 700 people packed the two floors for the ball, and at around 10 PM another group of seventeen passengers was loaded into the elevator on the first floor, bound for the party on floor six. Just as the elevator reached the floor, it suddenly let go and fell six stories, crashing into the elevator pit. The multi-ton elevator cable and assembly came crashing down onto the elevator, crushing the occupants. When the party goers heard the crash, they rushed to the elevator. In the panic, some nearly fell into the open shaft. Four bodies were pulled from the rubble and taken to a morgue. They were so badly mangled it was not until the next day they could be identified. So mangled were the bodies, they could only be identified by the cloths they were wearing. The others in the elevator, the youngest being only 3 years old, somehow survived. The accident was blamed on overloading of the elevator with 17 people when the maximum weight allowed for only 10-12."
This is the stimulus we have taken to devise our piece from, we chose it as we feel it is fitting to our site as well as to our actors. It will be an immersive piece that will only have one audience member. This means the experience will be very intense and confrontational. Within the lift we are going to develop a physical piece to perform where we show the crash and the way the bodies were moved by the force. We want to incorporate colour to represent the blood of the people inside, so we are thinking about having red paint that we throw in the lift as well as strobe lighting to represent the technical side of the disaster.
This is the stimulus we have taken to devise our piece from, we chose it as we feel it is fitting to our site as well as to our actors. It will be an immersive piece that will only have one audience member. This means the experience will be very intense and confrontational. Within the lift we are going to develop a physical piece to perform where we show the crash and the way the bodies were moved by the force. We want to incorporate colour to represent the blood of the people inside, so we are thinking about having red paint that we throw in the lift as well as strobe lighting to represent the technical side of the disaster.
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