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Showcase The Fifth Province |
Our client, The Inner City Trust, based in Derry Northern Ireland wanted to build a Heritage centre near the famous city walls at the top end of the town. Within that centre, they wanted an outstanding show that would depict a true accurate and unbiased story of Ireland and the Irish people. By the time RMA Ltd was brought on board, half the building had been erected. It formed the shape of a long thin tall atrium. Not ideal for any track-based ride or auditorium show format. Three areas were created. The outer two were fitted with 8 metre high scissor lifts. Mounted to the top of the first lift was a turntable and on top of that was a motion base. A fully themed Celtic time capsule was landed on top of this motion base. This gave us the ability to move people between vertical areas as well as opening up all the space surrounding the lift, which formed natural micro-auditoriums. This first section covers the history of the Irish people up to the present day. The centre section effectively hung some 6 metres in mid air and formed a bridge section between the two lifts. This was literally floating in space. So when the visitor left their Celtic capsule and walked through the air lock, they suddenly realised that they were floating within a huge starfield. This section beamed three children into space, one from Derry, one from Australia and one from America. Our time lord Calgagh explains to them how they were all descendants from Ireland. The second lift, and the way back down, was fitted with an acoustically sealed capsule that would take our visitors back home accompanied by beautiful poetry and images of Ireland. The show concludes with a 3 dimensional ghost of the White Dove of peace, flying towards the audience. This was without doubt, the most emotionally stirring show we’ve had the pleasure of designing. |
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