Directors vision: The sandbox

Director's vision: The sandbox

The play is set in Sweden (no specific year period) We are introduced to a kindergarten with kids running wild and having fun. Everything seems ok until one of the children discovers a dead body buried in the sandbox. Panic erupts, children screaming and crying. The body is one of the workers at the kindergarten. My vision for this scene is to have the lights turn to a most uncomfortable red. The stage will become completely silent, the audience must be able to hear a pin drop. This silence will go on for about 5 seconds. Then there will be hard and loud drums (as in a orchestra) We see all the children around start to panic and the adult staff will try to contain them. But the child who discovers the body will stand completely still in shock. The scene will then go dark.

In the next scene we see detective Ulfbjorn  standing outside the kindergarten just a few feet away from the sandbox which is now a crime scene. He stands with his notebook taking down notes. The light in this scene is not particular sad. It is warm and in the back round we hear the birds sing (this to indicate that it is the next morning) The other detective (detective Rosling) walks up to him and starts a conversation asking him what happened. Detective Ulfbjorn does not respond, he just squats down and looks at the sandbox closer. For this scene i want the audience to really start to think about what happened. Not just the fact that someone died, but also why. Detective Ulfbjorn says “Lets go inside”  The two of them begin walking towards the building. They get to the door and stop, The whole building then starts to rotate. The lights begin to fade and turn dark, at the same time music that sounds interesting starts playing. (like when the main characters in a movie walk into a haunted house/building) The stage is rearranged at the same time as the building rotates. The inside of the kindergarten looks old and i want it to give the audience a sertain chill down their spine as if something is wrong with the whole building.