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HALLOWEEN  "SCARY"  PATH

AT  BATTLEFIELD PARK

8BPS
 RICHMOND AREA THEATRE  KIWANIS  HALLOWEEN "SCARY" PATH

email  lbobbert@yahoo.com

Official SLEEPY HOLLOW  site

Director 
-  Dr. Larry C. Bobbert

 

SLEEPY HOLLOW Original Proposals       
                  Page UPDATE  3/21/05  

ALL INFORMATION HERE IS TENTATIVE - THE PROJECT HAS NOT YET BEEN APPROVED BY THE BATTLE FIELD GROUP OR THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT

PROJECT PROPOSAL

PROPOSAL Originally printed 10/27/04 The following is an amended version

Rose Barn Theatre Presents SLEEPY HOLLOW AND THE HEADLESS HORSMAN
Created and Directed by Dr. Larry C. Bobbert
Preamble (added 3/19/05)
The project as presented was/is intended to be a COMMUNITY event not just a RAT production. It was also designed for replication in future years with a minimum of fuss, bother but it is compartmentalized so that other organizations could join. i.e. a choir in one of the “stages” – a high school drama group on a future “stage”.

The design includes 3 major community groups who are known to “get things done.” Done well it could be a very good “money maker” for all participating groups.

Richmond Area Theatre, Battlefield Group and Kiwanis – share work, publicity and profits
Talent: RAT actors, students, church members (maybe chorus)
Workers: Kiwanis members
Extras: Battlefield people
- Horse Back: headless horsemen and on horse back to attack the wagon.
- Pyrotechnics (explosives?? Guns??)

PRODUCTION VALUES AND ACTIVITY SEQUENCES

(Group 1)
Part 1 15 or 20 people Enter barn with small stage for “play”
Projections, Live shadow figures in “loft” behind painted sheets
– lights off and on - loud sound effects of rain – thunder – screams -
– Ghost figures (dummies) swing from rafters
Play starts with narrator and a few actors

Part 2 Headless Horseman rides in beside stage (Stg Right)
Hunters shoot at it from back – Yelling and scream –“get him”
Actors scream and try to hid on the stage – grab 2 kids(actors) from audience

Part 3
Narrator - (panics) – gets “audience” people to run out beside stage (Stg Left)
to South West Barn Doors Out of barn

Part 4
Next group enters barn sits to effects, ghosts, music and sound (same sequence as group 1)
Group 1 (continues) seated on a “hay/straw” wagon
Part 5
Wagon Group walk south of barn toward the forest (Can go past not in—swampy) (Do lights in forest with portable generator)
The driver has two assistances (actors who set the stage for coming events)
Actor joins group “just up at the next turn is where Harry….lost his head”
STAGE 2 (set up near rocks with 3 sides incase of inclement weather)Actors perform a scene at that point – from horse back if possible
Sleepy Hollow scenes and scary characters pop out from behind trees—These I thunk could be Dane’s Lapers -- 2 or three between the “Stages”

Part 6 Group passes into dimly lighted area
Men shooting (loud blanks) and screaming suddenly Pass by hunting the headless horsemen -- These I thunk could be some of the “re-enactors”
Part 7
Headless horsemen seen up ahead but rides out of light—Actors scream
(look a like but different one from guy in barn)

Part 8 Tree (scenery) falls and almost hits the wagon with sound effects and screaming


Part 9 Group goes through edge of swampy area with sound effects
Actors warn “this is the swamp in which ……got beheaded….”
maybe dead people characters
String and rags hang down from trees to wipe faces
Actors join group for a few yards—can deliver dialogue and keep kids from pulling stuff down)
Fog machine in swamp
Maybe light Rain with hose

Part 10 STAGE 3 Group passes Scene with women and children hiding and scared
(dialogue from Sleepy Hollow)

Part 11 Scared Kids (actors) run up and try to join the group but are chased away – maybe with blood on them
(Dialogue –“ being chased by headless horseman”
Drivers assistances (actors) chase them away
—so they can double back and get next wagon

Part 12 STAGE 4 Group approaches a shack with Fence that blocks forward progress
in walled structure(Church like as if a funersl) – somewhat maze like Bodies described in SH or simulated grave yard

Part 13 Crosses bridge in far corner of pond -- a bloody head is tossed at them and lands in middle of bridge (to later be retrieved and re used) horsemen ride over the hill attack them yelling and screaming Pyrotechnics greet wagon audience

Part 14 Stage 4 Denouement (to be decided later)

Part 15 Group led past the barn theatre to parking area.

Other scenes could be added in other years

Optional Events
Many options for adding people if we have lots of actors and or horsemen.
One or all the organizations could run a refreshment stand with cider and cookies
Etc. Could sell small candy bars cheap as a treat.
Or could include small something as part of the price of entering so kids leave with something.
Could set up a photographic concession with a computer and camera to sell pictures
of people with a headless dummy, etc
. or pic of audience when headless horseman first is seen and shot at– the flash could be part of the effects
Could have a few ponies for “little guys” to ride a pony/horse
while older ones join the Haunted Sleep Hollow “play.”
Could have tours of the house for a small fee
Could have an apple bobbing tub or two
 

ANOTHER SCENARIO FOR THE PROJECT

For example the Battlefield people could open their house, but they'd be in charge of it.

The Kiwanis could do concessions and be in charge of it and maybe parking since a "flow of traffic" is necessary.

RAT people could divide up the various Stages.  Following will be a map of how I see the "stages" set up. 

Me - I'd be the producer and direct  Stage 1 -- the one in the barn.   I love your idea of running them out of the barn through a sound effected maze.

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