Not completely the wrong part of the forum. Scenery Questions?
Instead of thinking two chairs, what about a single chair that with it's adjustment handle making it adjust, it turns the chair seat and
foot support into a ramp.
In this instance, watching the video would help. Seen or been involved in a few producitons of the show and never seen the two chair concept. Instead
in one form or another, it was a single swivel barber chair used with a hole in the
deck that allowed the body to slip from the chair once pushed or it became a ramp, that allowed the body to slip off
stage.
Renting such a chair might be a good idea. Otherwise were I engineering it, I would make the handle make the
foot rest instead go
flat to the floor in making this otherwise obstruction to making people slide from the chair hurt themselves. Otherwise with proper engineering the seat can also turn into a similar slide. Still the
point is to make the person in the chair slip from the chair to a opening in the
deck that upon lever, opens up in a laundry shoot type of way to allow the bodies to get to the basement. Ever important in this detail is also to make it safe for the actor to sit at one moment than slide down into the no doubt padded pit below the
stage.
Otherwise if not able to do a platformed barber shop allowing for a pit, I might allow for say a upstage wall's
trap door that opens in allowing Sweeney to push the body out of the chair and into the
trap door laundry shoot thus off
stage. Get the idea? Part of the action and effort in this
play is that
effect of industrial production of meat for the pie shop below. Unless you show how easy it is to remove the bodies mechanically and cleanly, and instad go for some type of Poof! Second chair, wicked witch type changing
effect, you are not going to get the design intent of the factory slaughter of people for their meat. In this show, show how he removes the bodies. Don't know where you are reading of a second chair a few feet away, but I assure you that it would not be my intent as a designer.