I have been brainstorming about what contraptions to build and use on stage, and have come up with a new"protagonist", which I call "The Geek ". He mans a thoroughly 21st Century machine with a 19th Century Steampunk esthetic, a spoof of what a computer might have looked like 150 years ago. At it's core will be an old typewriter, a large computer monitor, and a live cam housed in an old bellows view camera:
Everything will be mounted on a box on wheels equipped with handles, and will be carted around the stage by "The Geek" like a large TV camera. Something along the lines, but not quite as elaborate as "The Brain" in Caro and Jeunet's "City of Lost Children":
"The Geek" will be manning the live cam, from wide view to close up, and to some extent interact with the other characters at the same time. He will at times tap the keyboard in rhythm with the music, but also be a "stagehand on stage", helping with the set changes, pushing the bed or the wheelchair around, cranking the front set up, etc...
Everything will be mounted on a box on wheels equipped with handles, and will be carted around the stage by "The Geek" like a large TV camera. Something along the lines, but not quite as elaborate as "The Brain" in Caro and Jeunet's "City of Lost Children":
"The Geek" will be manning the live cam, from wide view to close up, and to some extent interact with the other characters at the same time. He will at times tap the keyboard in rhythm with the music, but also be a "stagehand on stage", helping with the set changes, pushing the bed or the wheelchair around, cranking the front set up, etc...
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