Leveler’s Project

Concept: The Leveler’s Science Project is basically the use of several simple machines in order to finish a simple task. In this play, the actors would act as four simple machines that are trying to finish one simple task: get the ball into the hoop. The only sound in the play would be a xylophone, which would give the play the rhythmic beat of a cohesive, machine. The actors’ actions would seem concise, almost robotic.

Scene: The characters who are each acting a machine, will be hanging limp and bending over.

Actor 1: Will come and “crank the first person up as if they had a key on their back in order to make them alive.

Now all the People will Come into Up-Right Position. The first “machine” will already have a ball in his hands before he was put into action. Now he will spin and do two circles. Once complete, he will place the ball into the next persons arms who are in a cradle position. The first “machine” will do one more spin. The second person would act like a catapult. The first machine would push down the catapult, and the second machine would lauch the ball into the air.

The third machine would catch the ball, and then roll the ball onto the ground towards the next person.

The fourth person would already be on the floor, and once she caught the ball she would do a backward somersault. The hoop would be right behind her and once she is once her feet she would place the ball into the hoop by carrying the ball over her head. The Leveler’s Project is Complete.