![]() ![]() People walked, danced, drifted together, then apart. ![]() ![]() The space separating the Malting and American Elevators is about 140 feet.Īs the audience slowly filled the bleachers, members of the cast milled about, apparently randomly, in the large field. The distance from the front row of the bleachers to the small area in front of Perot Elevator where part of the action took place is 150 feet. Several food trucks lined that space, creating a kind of lobby for the production. That is normally an open area, but bleachers separated it from the part of the field closest to the road leading out to Ohio street. The performance took place in the field between American Grain Elevator on the left, Perot Malting Elevator on the right, and Perot Grain Elevator directly ahead. For this production at Silo City, Torn Space inverted that relationship. In most theatrical performances, the largest visible space is occupied by the audience the action takes place in a smaller area on a floor or a stage. The production had a cast of 43 named performers, plus the Lancaster High School Marching Band and Color Guard, the drivers of two Caterpillar backhoes and one bulldozer, and maybe a dozen members of the audience. The Gathering, the Torn Space Theater production written and directed by Torn Space co-founders Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola, which had a two-day run at Silo City August 18 and 19, was not only superb theater but also a brilliant use of derelict industrial space and of the night itself. Torn Space’s annual production at Silo City is once again a superb evening of spectacle and theater ![]()
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