Producing the Scene...

Rainbows - unreachable dreams.
OR
Eye-tricks? Hallucination due to the refraction or sun's ray on the water droplets?

Scene ONE: Living room. Beatrice (Benny) making 2 calls and drinking you-know. He's SO UNDERAGE!!

Props needed:

1. Sofa (with pillows?)
2. Phone (preferably dialling phones - phones of the olden days)
3. Table (tea-table)
4. Armchair
5. Robe (with pockets)
6. Classic wine glass
7. Whiskey bottle
8. Phonebook
9. Toy Rabbit
10. Cage
11. Cardboard box
12. Blue towel
13. Chloroform

Sound effects:

1. Dialling sound
2. Phone ringing.

Lighting Design:

1. Dark to light (spotlight on Benny AND things around him.)
2. Spotlight stays when he hands up the phone.
3. Slowly, the whole room lights up (spotlight fades).
4. Benny slams the phone; spotlight on Benny AND general "soft" lightings
5. All lights off when scene ends.

Scene TWO: Tillie's (Matthew) Presentation.

1. Display board (Pris's group's presentation board.)
2. 3 pots of mutated marigolds (drawn on cutboard, then cut them out.)
3. Cue cards. (I wanna write my lines in there! - CX.)
   
4. Table to place the pots and the display board.

Lightings:

1. Lights whole area dimly with the Spotlight following Matthew (Mattie).
2. Background lights fade out when we reach the part which says [with inspiration], leaving the spotlight on Matthew.
3. Lights fade out completely in the last part of it.

Sound effects:

1. Gongs.
2. Applause.
3. Electronic sounds (P.A. announcing the winner and all. Something similar to that.)

Scene 3: The argument. Effects of gamma radiation.

Props needed:

1. Display board (from scene 2)
2. Trophy
3. Dead rabbit from scene 1 in wrapped in blue towel.
4. Wooden Spoon
5. Cutleries.
6. The rest of the props used in scene 1.

Lights:

1. Lights turn on very slowly.
2. Line 256, Spotlight turned on on Ruth and follow wherever she goes.
3. Line 269, Spotlight off.
4. Line 281, Spotlight shone on Benny and Mattie.
5. Line 285, dim background lights.
6. Line 286, Spotlight on Mattie, dim lights on Nanny AND Benny.
7. Continue dimming, including the spotlight on Mattie, until the curtain closes (show ends).

Sound effects:

1. Deafening silence, line 269.
2. Sound of wood knocking onto each other.
3. Main music theme (anyone has any idea on whatever that's soft, fusion between contemporary with classic, preferably Takemitsu's pieces.)

Issac's sketches of the 3 main characters AND the staging will be posted soon!!
I mean, really soon, I HOPE. D;


Cheers,
Chenxing.
and they continue calling me "stacy".