![]() At one point one of them begins vacumning the threadbare carpet. The screen is a guaze, fine enough to see through when lit from behind.ģ "ushers" badly dressed in moth eaten suits and clear plastic face masks (mannequins in the same costumes are positioned randomly against walls and poles) menace patrons by standing and staring at them, or sitting in a empty seat next to them, till they notice and yelp with fright. Behind the screen is a curved ladder that forms an arch, also a set of coloured lights making a rainbow. If there is enough space, the band can perform from behind the movie screen, and the right hand side scaffolding platform can hold the Coke fridge. ![]() A string of bare bulbs run from a front corner to the opposite rear corner.Īs the theatre is a cinema, the amount of room behind the screen has a bearing on the set's layout. For all appearances, this is a room, mid-demolition. The room is very dimly lit and what can be seen is decaying, cracked or missing, a lifeless arm can be seen hanging through a large crack in the ceiling's plasterwork and collapsed chairs are stacked under the scaffolding. The audience is facing a proscenium and red velvet curtains. Until the scene that uses the lab, it is hidden behind a shabby, stained curtain, resembling a painter’s drop cloth. The lab consists of a hospital bed, with neon tubes in rows behind it, as well as test tubes and chemical flasks filled with colored liquids arranged in front of the neon. The scaffolding platform on the right, also accessed by ladder, supports the “lab”. The one at the left has a ladder running from the stage to the platform, where an old Coca-Cola chest-style fridge is sitting with black curtaining blocking any view of what may lie behind The centre aisle is blocked by a catwalk running from one of the back doors and meeting at the centre of the stage. Scaffolding runs along both side walls finising at raised platforms at the sides of the stage. Once inside the auditorium, you see that the entire interior has been covered in dark blue canvas, stenciled with ACME Demolition Co. Signs on the walls carry apologies for the inconvenience caused during demolition. The lobby is papered with old horror movie posters, a jukebox and pinball machines. The dilapidated facade is papered with half torn Rocky Horror posters. Rocky Horror is about a loss of innocence, the decaying movie house providing the sense of losing the past and the immediate recognition that this show is about movies. The venue is all important! A single level cinema, on the verge of being condemned, in a seedy area, the bigger the loss of opulence, the more impacting the effect.
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