A DARK NIGHT OF THE HOLE (working title)

Some Shadow Plays From The Cave In A Theatre

 

The proposition for a proscenium theatre:

 

At the front of the stage hangs a black gauze. It blows slightly from a breeze from the stage.

 

There is the sound of a breeze. There is the cool smell of damp.

 

Behind the black gauze the stage is set for the presentation of the fifty plays that make up Some Shadow Plays From The Cave - each telling different stories based on the exploits of Plato and Glaucon.

 

In the darkness the stage manager sits in the wings and speaks into a microphone the stage directions of what should be happening on the empty stage.

 

Between these stage directions the words that should be spoken by each of the plays characters are projected onto the front cloth as surtitles.

 

The beginning of each play is announced by a musical prologue and two stage managers preparing the stage with minimal props and scenic objects (a rock - a mattress - three chairs).

 

The stage managers sleep in the wings during each of the plays.

 

The stage remains empty, there are no actors that inhabit the plays.

 

The audience reads the lines projected on the front cloth.

 

 

A writer is commissioned to sit throughout each night a write a play from their experience. This play may be a fabrication about desire, metaphysics, carnality and Simon Vincenzi.

 

 

Each presentation lasts throughout a night.

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