On the day of the performance we were discussing what we wanted the audience to see when they entered the room. We wanted to make the participant feel that they were not in control of what was to happen.  We decided on this; when the audience member entered the room they would see five people in black clothing standing with their arms by their side not wearing headphones. When the audience member was in the box and could no longer see us, we would then begin to get our props, headphones and microphones. When they got out of the box everything would be as if nothing has changed. We wanted to give the illusion that the story we were telling could of happened while they were in complete darkness. If the audience member saw what we did to create the story then they could say for certain that the story did not happen. We got this idea by looking at a famous experiment by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). The experiment named Schrödinger’s cat has a similar nature to our performance. The experiment states that without looking inside the container the observer can not say for sure whether the cat is dead or alive, in the same way without the audience member looking out of the box, he or she can not say for certain that the world around the box is changing or not. Without remaining in control of what the audience sees, the story we tell has no meaning and the illusion we create during the performance is lost.

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