{ Threater project } 2012

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INTRODUCTION INSPIRATIONS

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1st TRIAL

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CONTROLLED

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2nd Trial

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SCENE SEQUENCE TECNICAL DRAWINGS

COLLAPSE MACHINE

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TECNICAL DRAWINGS

3rd Trial

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CONTROLLED THE WORLD OF BEING UNDER GOD'S POWER

INTRODUCTION

THE BACCHAE

BY EURIPIDES SUMMARY Dionysus, the god of wine, prophecy,

T H E J AY MI L L E R ’S BACCHAE

religious ecstasy, and fertility, returns

Jay Miller’s Bacchae is based loosely

to his birthplace in Thebes in order to

upon one of Euripides finest plays.

clear his mother’s name and to punish

The concept: Euripides’ Bacchae is

the insolent city state for refusing to

updated to a near-present which in the

allow people to worship him.

light of the recent London riots could be seen strangely prescient. Dionysus becomes Dio, Pentheus Peter, a Cabinet Minister, and Cadmus Caleb,

his father. The rest of the core cast are

the government as more and more

plague of dancing, the Bacchantes,

cut in a slick and tight adaptation

people are deserting everyday life to

that is afflicting the country, under the

that melds original themes with ideas

follow the mysterious Dio.

influence of an unknown celestial with

of causality, morality and the human

Peter’s character is not entirely devoid

evil tendencies.

need for exploration and experience.

of humanity but with a blinkered mindset

After Caleb is seduced to dance with

In the opening prologue Dio, a god,

that recalls the original Pentheus. His

others, Peter attempts to save the day

introduces himself to the audience.

growing disdain and anger at the new

with unfortunate consequences.

Multimedia is brought in to explain the

Dio movement is slowly drawn out as

rest of the plot background: modern

the production moves along and Dio

Thebes become London where an

begins to draw him into his web.

inexplicable dance craze is paralysing

Caleb and Peter are troubled by a

THE YARD THEATRE

LIVE INSTALLATION PROJECT AT THE YARD THEATRE, HACKNEY WICK, LONDON THE BACCHAE BY EURIPIDES, DIRECTED BY JAY MILLER The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick,

The client for this live brief, The Yard

technologies and structures both from

near to the site of the forthcoming

Theatre and it ’s artistic director

the theatre and everyday life and to

2012 Olympic Games, embraces

Jay Miller, requires an exciting new

transform these materials to create

the temporal and changing nature

stage set and performance space

unexpected and surprising results. It’s

of theatre and performance spaces.

for a production and modern

important to embrace the temporary

The Yard occupies an abandoned

interpretation of The Bacchae by

nature of performance and to design

warehouse space and has been

Euripides.

a space that celebrates its assembly,

designed using reclaimed local

The aim of this project is to harvest

use and disassembly over a matter of

materials by Practice Architecture.

and utilize redundant materials,

just days and weeks.

DIONYSUS, THE ATTRACTIVE CREATURE THAT DOMINATES PEOPLE WEB, A THIN, SILKEN MATERIAL Spider web, a device built by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, is a nuture struture that catch prey. Dionysus, the god of the grape harvest, was worshipped by all human being, not only woman but man as well. He controlled people those can not resist his extremely fascination, as a spider makes the invisible web to trap the insect..

The concept of the project is to build a web-like structure, providing more potential possibility that allow performers interact with the device.

INSPIRATIONS

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1st TRIAL

SPIDER WEB The concept is Dionysus' ability of controlling and persuading people, likes the spiders create the invisible web to trap prey.

The main structure was made of two grid diagrams, one drawn on the floor and the other on the wall, utilizing the pattern to create a random web.

Di a gr a m F l o o r P lan

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2nd TRIAL

REVERSE STRUCTURE

with hook (applied UV paint).

transfer to variety form but also

Screwing the Eye bolt on the

build different environment for

sur face of wooden frame

each scene.

Revering the first trail and,

structure that provides the

the second trail is an upside

performances hook the rope.

down web structure that

Interactive stage creates

connected UV elastic rope

more possibilities, not only can

Wooden frame + UV Light

Elastic rope

Wooden frame + eye bolt

Elastic rope (applied by UV paint)

Drilled Floor for Hooking

UV LIGHT

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The main structure is a wooden pulley system that provides performers to build the predetermined geometric figures part of each scene. Performers' costumes and geometrical figures on the floor that glow under the ultraviolet light.

UV LIGHT

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Each scene design are the simple lines of geometric figures, the movements of making form that invent a fantasy experience while audiences watch performers spinning the UV web.

THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PERFORMERS

ELASTIC ROPE, UV PAINT & UV LIGHT Utilizing the thin elastic rope appliied UV paint and UV light on the stage, creating an glow environment that performers interact with the structure.

The hanged wooden pulley system on the ceiling that can pull up and down from the staff on each scene. Performers can pull the ropes and hook them on the drilled floor structure, acting and dancing on stage, building specific form while the scene changes to another.

UV LIGHT TESTING Using elastic ropes applied UV paint and UV lights in the dark environment, testing how effective the technique is in the reality.

SCENE SEQUENCE

SCENE SEQUENCE DEVELOPMENT The Control Stage Set has been thought and built to last all the play long.The design change during every single scene in accordance with the actors and dancers movements on the stage.

7 scenes are planned, and each one see a different geometrical shape to appear from pulling the ropes and make them match with as many shapes on the floor. From Dio arrival in the city, to the domestic environment with Peter and Caleb, going through the office place, the followers dancing in the street and Peter’s speech, to end with the Peter’s murder and his burying it's a smooth flow to one form in another one. Dio has got his revenge.

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DIO ARRIVAL

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PETER & CALEB IN DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENT

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LUISA, PETER & DIO IN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT

Turn the UV light on

Pyramid shape created by the dancers

Home shape created by the dancers

Two rectangles created by the dancers, Dio outside the rectangles

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PEOPLES FOLLOW DIO & DANCE IN THE STREETS

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PETER’S SPEECH

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KILLING OF PETER BY CALEB

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Radial lines meeting in the center created by the dancers

Peter fighting against the dancers, scene created by the dancers who are struggling to hook the cables on the floor

Caleb & dancers pull Lines to across Peter’s body

BURRYING OF PETER BY DANCERS AND CALEB Rectangle (coffin), scene created by the dancers

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3rd TRIAL

E y e B o l t Fo r H o o k i n g Elastic rope 3 6 0 D eg re e Mov eab le Con n e c ti o n

M o veable H andle Spring

M o veabl

720 Degree Mov e ab le Con n ect ion

TRAGEDY, AN UNFO

In the end of the story, after Cale

Developing the moveable idea fro

can be moved flexible by performe

In the last scene, all the performer

structure onto ground, making

e (Hi g h e r Level)

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ORTUNATE ENDING

eb is seduced to dance with others, he kills his son Peter.

om the second trail, the collapse machine is a device that

ers as well as creating any angle randomly as they need.

r would grasp the m o v e a b l e h a n d l e a n d m o v e t h e

g the device seems collapse.