Sensory Audience Guide for Bloodletting

Sensory Audience Guide

 

Provided by Pork Filled Productions in conjunction with


Bloodletting Sensory Audience Guide

 

Environmental Considerations for Bloodletting

  1. The performance takes place in the Theatre Off Jackson. It is a smaller theater, seating about 140 patrons. The ceiling is low and all seats are close to the stage.
  2. There are two aisles in the theatre, both of which are used by performers for entrances and exits during the show.
  3. The show is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes in duration. The first act is 40 minutes, there is a 15 minute intermission, and the second act is 60 minutes.
  4. Part of the sound system is located under the seats in the right section as you are facing the stage. This causes intermittent rumbling sensations under those seats.

Show Content Considerations for Bloodletting

  1. The plot centers on the presence of Aswang, mythical shapeshifting creatures who blend in with people by day and hunt their victims at night
  2. Characters are attacked by an invisible force and experience extreme pain or other physical symptoms.
  3. Characters physically attack each other.
  4. Characters discuss miscarriages.
  5. There is discussion of death, cremation and distributing ashes. An urn containing cremains is prominently displayed throughout the play.

Key to Symbols 

                         

Visual intensity

 

Auditory Intensity

 

Emotional Intensity

Scene

   

 Sensory Category Heightened Sensory Moments
Scene I

 

 

 

 –   When Leelee finishes chanting in her garden there are multiple claps of thunder and a flash of lightening followed by the sound of rain

 

–   Jenry experiences pain and frustration as Farrah talks about not being able to get in the river to place her father’s ashes

 

–   Bosely chokes as he recounts Farrah playing water polo

 

–   After discussing his father’s cremation Bosley experiences increased pain in his ankle

 

–   After Jenry toasts Bosely’s father, Bosely experiences an urgent need to go to the bathroom
Scene II

–   The scene opens with the sound of rain, distant thunder, and crickets. There is intermittent thunder throughout the scene.

 

–   As the scene progresses the cricket sounds get louder and louder

 

–   When Leelee exits the sound of crickets becomes quite loud as does the thunder and rain

 

–   Seeing that the moon is bloodred, Farrah screams in horror and is overcome
INTERMISSION –   15 Minute intermission
Scene III

In the restaurant

  

 

 –   Farrah enters the restaurant with the sound of rain. She is very upset and tries to convince Bosley to leave immediately. Throughout the scene she remains in a highly agitated state.

 

–   Throughout this scene characters are attacked by invisible force from Leelee

 

–   When Leelee enters she trains her eye on Farrah and Farrah begins choking

 

–   After Farrah recounts how their parents really met Bosley experiences pain in his throat and runs for the restroom

 

–   When he returns for the restroom Bosley describes the pain he is feeling throughout his body

 

–   As Bosley realizes Jenry wanted him to have the bracelet for protection from Leelee and Farrah a mysterious force slams him towards the door

 

–   Jenry is overcome with pain in his chest

 

–   There is the sound of thunder as Bosley and Farrah exit
Scene III

Outside the restaurant

 –   Farrah sees in the moon that Gustavo cheated on Bosley

 

–   When Bosley tries to get Farrah to talk about her feelings he is overcome by pain in his throat

 

–   Farrah violently attacks Bosley when he says he’s glad their father is dead

 

–   When Leelee and Farrah are alone they attack each other

 

–   As the rains stops, Leelee discusses sucking fetuses from the belly buttons of expectant mothers to gain strength

 

–   Leelee discusses eating the organs of dead people
Scene IV

 

 –   Jenry describes the violent attack that killed Leelee’s mother

 

–   After Bosley composes his prayer Farrah and Leelee enter. This startles Bosley and he screams.

 

–   Bosley talks negatively about his father. Farrah physically attacks him, and uses her powers and words to attack him causing extreme pain.

 

–   Bosley believes Farrah wants to kill him

 

–   Bosley begs Farrah to give him the aswang powers

 

–   Farrah wrestles with her feelings towards her father and that he made her an aswang like he was