PRODUCTION VALUES and ACTIVITY SEQUENCES
   After parking and passing the concession areas.

Stage 1  a. Participants will enter the barn. in small groups 3-15  (depending on density of traffic) where they will be seated as if to see a 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  amid spider webs etc’.  The same sound effects will be fed to the Forrest area around the pond.

Play starts with narrator reading the opening lines from the original published work to a few child actors.  Thus we begin with the feeling this is more than an outdoors “fun house.”

         b. Headless Horseman slowly rides in stage Right.  The narrator and actors scream and try to hid on the stage Hunters shoot at it from back – Yelling and scream –“get him”   Actors scream – grab 2 kids (actors) from audience Narrator and actors herd the audience off stage left and to the area in the barn behind the stage.

         c.  The area in the barn behind the stage is a black maze  which ends out side of the barn.

         d.   Next group enters barn sits

Transition 1   (To be determined with Transition Directors after stage activities are determined)  The audience will be directed past the eerily lit woods to. Stage 2.

Stage 2  up by the pile of rocks near the fence by the parking area  (Directed by _______________)  Scene 3 to 5 minutes in duration depicting some aspect of the Sleepy Hollow story   (To be determined in coordination with the Producer and the other  Stage Directors)

Transition 2  the headless horseman is suddenly lit in the forest.  Soldiers jump out of bushes yell and shoot at the headless horseman (illuminated intermittently) and soldiers run around the group (audience.)   Further on toward Stage 3 “passers by tell of seeing the “haunt” quoting lines from the story

 Stage 3 up at the far corner  near the fence  (Directed by _______________)  Scene 3 to 5 minutes in duration depicting some aspect of the Sleepy Hollow story   (To be determined in coordination with the Producer and the other  Stage Directors)

 Transition 3   (To be determined with Transition Directors after stage activities are determined)  The audience will be directed near the pond to the Bridge. 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.

Bridge Two sword fighters maybe one on horse back one loses his head and it flies across the bridge at the audience (sword fighters Sam and Zack Evans)

Transition 4  (To be determined with Transition Directors after stage activities are determined)  The audience will be directed past the pond to the far grassy slope with stage 4 by characters from the story.  A tree falls nearly hitting them (someone yells to warn them of the falling tree.)

Stage 4  across the pond on the far side   (Directed by _______________)  Scene 3 to 5 minutes in duration depicting some aspect of the Sleepy Hollow story   (To be determined in coordination with the Producer and the other  Stage Directors)

Transition 5  (To be determined with Transition Directors after stage activities are determined)  The audience will be directed around the pond and up the  grassy slope toward the barn and Stage 5

. Stage 5  across the pond on the far side   (Directed by _______________)  Scene 3 to 5 minutes in duration depicting some aspect of the Sleepy Hollow story   (To be determined in coordination with the Producer and the other  Stage Directors)

 Transition 6  (To be determined with Transition Directors after stage activities are determined)  The audience will be directed up the up the hill past the back of the barn near the grassy knoll.

 Final Event Horsemen/women over the rise will come up shooting and yelling   and shoot at a headless horsemen up near the Concession area behind back drop so people entering can't see what they are shooting at. Pyrotechnics send them off.  (limited area  over the ridge lit with torches for the protection of the horses)