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The show is based on the original stage show at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, which was produced by Wilton’s Music Hall and Hero productions.\nThe performance lasts for a little under two and half hours, including a 20-minute interval.\nThe audio describers are Carolyn Smith and Gethyn Edwards.\nSettings and Props\nThe Royal Shakespeare Theatre has a ‘thrust’ stage, which means it stretches out into the audience, who sit on three sides. There are walkways that lead from the left and right corners of the thrust part, those at the back leading to the wings, or sides of the stage, and those at the front leading through the audience to the back of the auditorium, (that’s where the audience sits). These walkways are used by the actors to get on and off the stage.\nThe back of the stage is framed by a blue-lit grey arch, around three metres tall, which stretches from one side to the other. It’s made of wooden slats covered with plaster, which is moulded into decorations along the edges. The arch is old and bits of plaster have fallen off, so you can see the wood underneath. Leaning against each side of the arch are long wooden ladders, one each side, that reach two-thirds of the way to the top of the arch.\nIn front of the arch, the thrust part of the stage has two wide, shallow platforms, one, slightly smaller, on top of the other, forming two steps. These platforms can move backwards and forwards.\nThe play begins in a modern-day attic in Seekings House, Kay Harker’s grandfather’s home.\nWhen we first come in and sit down, almost everything, including the floor of the stage and the walkways, is covered in dirty white dust sheets, draped untidily so that some bits are not quite covered.\nA blue-lit curtain hangs across the back of the stage. In front of this, piled either side under their dust sheets,    are lots of box-shaped objects, some, at the back, on top of each other, reaching the top of the space.    In front of these are jumbled rectangular shapes, around 2 to 2.75 metres tall and 75 centimetres to 1.5 metres wide. Further forward are various low box shapes, getting smaller the further forward they are placed.\nSome things are not covered: a single wooden wardrobe with a panelled door that looks as if it could be very old, in the centre at the back; a painting of a snowy landscape in a gold-painted frame on the floor next to the wardrobe; a low, black tin trunk with brass locks just in front of the painting and a model train on the floor in the centre of the top platform on the thrust stage.\nDuring the play, the dust sheets are taken away and other things, like furniture, are carried in and out by the actors to create different scenes.\nA train is created by actors holding up a model-sized engine with steam coming out of its funnel and three carriages with lights inside. The life-sized inside of the train is shown with suitcases arranged as seats, the dark winter countryside going past outside – trees, clouds, a full moon – shown by a video projected onto the back curtain. A train track is projected onto the sheet on the floor in front. Condicote station, where Kay arrives, has a projection of the station roof, with a large British Rail clock with hands pointing to Roman numbers hanging from it, beneath a railway sign saying ‘Condicote’.\nKay goes to stay at Seekings House with Caroline Louisa, the lady who looks after him in the holidays. On the curtain behind, roofs and a church tower are projected against a starry sky. In front of this, the upper boxes are covered with red velvet curtains with a pink flower pattern. The other boxes are uncovered – panelled wooden wardrobes and chests.    There is a wooden floor lamp with a fringed shade at a crooked angle, three stools, two at the back and one further forward, with a box of Chr","cbCaig4o4FiwjUoq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig4o4FiwjUoq","docx",30217,9,"English","# Settings and Props\n## Stage layout and audience walkways\n## Scenic arch, platforms, and dusty attic opening\n## Projections, moving set pieces, and transformed scenes\n## Magic effects and stage mechanics for flying and water scenes","[{\"question\":\"How long is the performance and is there an interval?\",\"answer\":\"The performance lasts for a little under two and a half hours and includes a 20-minute interval.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the thrust stage, and how do actors use the spaces around it?\",\"answer\":\"The thrust stage extends into the audience on three sides. 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