OBE

Conceived and created by Pamela Howard, World Stage Design ‘Living Legend’

Overture: The audience arrive

• An artificial 'field' with a strange Tower

• 10 ‘pods’ surround the Tower

• Each ‘pod’ has window shutters that are closed.

• An old Monk with a mobile phone stands on the steps leading up to the tower entrance and directs the audience to walk round the tower, and open each window.

• As each window opens and 5 minute video with Music and a performer automatically plays.

• Each video/film tells a story of one of the Provinces of Canada

• The Monk aims to get everybody to finish facing pods 1, 2 & 3

• The entrance to the Tower is closed with an old red theatre curtain

• The Monk rings an old ship's bell on a chain.

Development: The Revelation

• The Monks opens the Theatre Curtain

• Walls l, 2 & 3 rise to the top of the supporting poles

• The interior of the Tower is revealed

• An Angel rises to the top of the Tower

• A small chamber orchestra of 6 modern musicians plus a conductor on a wooden crate

• 6 singers begin the Voices of Canada Cantata, an original composition taken from elements from the videos shown in the pods

• Wooden benches can be used to sit or stand on.

Coda: The Finale

• The audience applaud

• The Monk, The Walls 1,2 &3 fall into their first position

• A ships bell rings and the performers descend the steps.

• The Monk throws off his habit and is revealed in White as a Nun (Hildegard of Bingen)

• The nun orders the benches to be put together as a Platform

• The orchestra emerge from the door and ladder at the back of the tower, and assemble at the edge of the field

• The performers continue the Coda of the Cantata with the audience either side of their platform

• A rainbow appears

• A Great Finale!