Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – With stadium or auditorium feature
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-12
2002-07-16
Stephan, Beth A. (Department: 3635)
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
With stadium or auditorium feature
C472S075000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06418670
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to means for effecting theatrical performances and more specifically it concerns a system and a stage for playing a theatrical performance and a method realized therein.
The present invention is successfully applicable for effecting theatrical-and-entertainment performances.
BACKGROUND ART
Stage producers alongside with engineering developments are permanently attempting at creating new entertainment forms and effecting extraordinary genre combinations in order to attain higher entertaining quality of theatrical and other stage performances. Scenery, costumes, music, inlay effects, integrating theatrical performances with motion pictures or TV are important components aimed at increasing the entertaining quality of such performances. All performances occur in this case in an air stage space customary to human perception.
Known in the art presently is an audience hall (cf.PCT publication #WO 87/ 07173) comprising an auditorium and a stage on which is disposed a common screen composed of a top screens and two side screens. The side screens rotatable so as to form wings in one position and an extension to the common screen, in another position. The common screen is movable with respect to the stage flooring and the auditorium is provided with at least two cellular screens.
Better entertaining quality is attained in said known audience hall due to creating an illusion of spatial reality produced by solely technical effects without any human participants (performers) which affects adversely the entertaining quality of the performance.
Known in the present state of the art is a stage for theatrical performance (cf. RU patent #2,099,124 C1) which appears as a box-shaped structure and comprises a stage platform and a rigid curtain linked to a drive for its moving. The known stage is of small overall dimensions and is therefore intended largely for use in halls having no stage platforms. It is however very difficulty to create extraordinary theatrical-entertainment performances on such a stage that would be featured by high entertaining quality and unique genre combinations.
Furthermore, known in the art is a method of effecting performances (cf. JP patent #05248109 A) whereby a player creates a dramatic image on the stage placed in a basin filled with water. The method contemplates using water as one of the theatrical properties for playing a theatrical performance which occurs in the surroundings customary to the players, while the spectators watch the stage performance from outside of the water basin opposite to the stage, that is, they see the performance occurring on a “floating” stage.
Such a method of effecting a theatrical performance is fairly unique and attracts spectators by unusually stage disposing. Nevertheless it is rather difficult to create a dramatic image and disclose producer's conception on a stage consisting in fact of a stage platform alone, which gives no way of regarding the stage performance featured by entertaining quality.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is a primary and essential object of the present invention to attain higher entertaining quality of a theatrical performance.
It is another object of the present invention to create new entertainment forms.
It is one more object of the present invention to provide extraordinary genre forms.
The foregoing objects are accomplished in a system for effecting a theatrical performance, comprising a stage for playing said theatrical performance by at least one of the participants therein, an auditorium having a zone for accommodating said stage and a plurality of means for accommodating a plurality of spectators, and a plurality of lighting facilities disposed outside and inside a first container, due to the fact that, according to the invention, the system comprises a first container having a plurality of side walls and a bottom and adapted to perform the function of said stage, at least one first side wall out of said plurality of side walls, which is optically transparent to form a stage mirror, an interior space of said first container confined within said plurality of side walls and said bottom, a first liquid medium suitable for human vital functions and held in said interior space of said first container, said liquid medium being adapted for effecting the theatrical performance by at least one of the participants in said theatrical performance, a surface of said first liquid medium, a means for rendering said surface of said first liquid medium unseen to each of said plurality of spectators, each of said plurality means for accommodating each of said plurality of spectators being so positioned in said auditorium that each of said plurality of spectators directs his/her eyes inside said liquid medium through said stage mirror.
The herein-proposed system for effecting theatrical performance allows, due to the use of a liquid medium, of creating an illusion of another space and another dimensionality compared with routine air space, which enriches much artistic-and-audience's effect. The liquid medium bears a definite artistic image therein and allows of creating the effect of “soaring” (slow-motion projection) which also adds to the entertaining quality of the performance.
The fact that at least one of the performers plays his role in the liquid medium enables one to smartly fix a plastic pattern, as well as to follow the laws of drama which makes possible creating a close-up of a psychophysical effect configured according to all requirements of modem producing practice.
It is expedient that the system should comprise a first group of lighting means out of said plurality of lighting means, said first group of lighting means being situated outside said first container, and a second group of lighting means out of said plurality of lighting means, located inside said first container.
Use of said lighting means makes possible coordinating stage illumination in accordance with the artistic conception of the theatrical performance.
It is favorable that the system should comprise a plurality of pieces of scenery, each being made of a material suitable for staying in a liquid and being held in place inside said first container.
Use of the scenery enhances esthetic perception of the performance and adds to the entertaining quality thereof.
It is important that the system should comprise a plurality of means for isolating a portion of said stage mirror from visual perception by each of said plurality of spectators, said plurality of means being held in place inside said first container.
Insofar as the performers act under water according to a dramatic outline without using any breathing apparatus, so hiding from the spectators the instant of inhaling-exhaling by the performers and their submerging into and emerging from the liquid medium, using the means for isolating a portion of the stage mirror ensures plastic realization of the producer's conception and disclosing the artistic image.
It is also favorable that the system should comprise a curtain movably mounted either outside said first container before said stage mirror or inside said first container in a close proximity to said stage mirror.
It reasonable that the system should comprise a compressed air feeding means located on said bottom of said first container in a close proximity to said first side wall and adapted to establish an ascending air stream serving as the curtain.
The aforesaid air curtain allows of hiding therebehind a stage action or space, a possibility being provided to establish such an air curtain of different intensity, whereby a “slow defocusing” effect can be produced.
It is expedient that the system should comprise a second container having a plurality of side walls and a bottom, said second container being arranged in said zone for disposing said stage immediately before said first container on the side of said auditorium, a first side wall out of said plurality of side walls of said second container, the function of said first side wall being performed by said opticall
Collard & Roe P.C.
Kuranov Alexandr Vasilievich
Slack N.
Stephan Beth A.
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