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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
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e Ha n d l e (Lo w er Level)
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.