Treatment and Character Bios

Treatment:
This installation is about estranged siblings from a negative point of view. It will not only show real life people and stories from their personal experience on the topic thru the doc side, but it will also pin point events that occurred in a specific situation thru the memories sequence and the live installation.

It will start out with darkness, in which two screens will turn on and play their parts.

Left Screen: This screen will play the 5 or more people's stories and experiences of finding their estranged siblings. There will be a real focus on the emotions they felt of not having them around and/or the emotions of their estranged siblings not wanting to meet them or suddenly cutting them off verses the actual journey of finding them. It will not follow any particular pattern and will most likely be cut up a lot and made really depressing (haha) This will provide the sound.

Right Screen: This screen will play the memories sequence. Two actresses will play sisters and they will act out different things such as drinking at a bar, singing in the car, karaoke, Dancing crazy, etc... This will be silent

Without warning a bright light will turn on and the Doc screen will turn to snow. There will be sister #2 standing with her back to the audience and she will be reaching towards the memories sequence. It will then go back to darkness and the doc screen will come back on and continue playing. After a period of time the light will come on again but this time both screens will go to snow and the sister#2 will be facing the audience acting out her pain, by looking worn and upset and maybe even crazed. It will continue alternating from on and off until the end of the doc and memories, each time when the light is on the duration will change and so will sister #2, after her 2nd appearance she will be trapped with either rope or chains. Every time the light comes on their will be an ear piercing screeching sound to provide the audience with a way to experience her agony.

The purpose of this piece is to expose the negative side of having siblings out there you don't know, because it isn't always a happy meeting. Also, because this is from a personal experience of mine that I felt and feel alone in, I also would like to use it as a tool for others and myself to show that I/they are not alone. Also if my estranged siblings hear about it or somehow see it that's always a plus.


Character Bios:
Beyond the Doc side which I plan to have at least 5 people there will be two actors that will play sisters for the memories sequence
Sister 1: She is the estranged sibling that was found by sister #2. They partake in a lot of fun times and click very quickly.
Sister 2: She is the one that went looking for sister #1. After some time sister #1 stopped almost all contact with sister #2 with no explanation, and sister #2 is dealing with the emotions of her random "disappearance". Sister #2 plays an important role in showing the agony and pain that was caused, by the sudden loss of contact after finally finding her sister.  Sister #2 will also be live in the installation acting out her "pain"