Demeter's Dark Ride - an Attraction
Ride
Demeter’s Dark Ride, ride timings as of 14th Sep 2005
Each Ride’s advertised start time is on the hour. We want the show to be about 40 minutes which allows for a 20 minute turnaround time. As there are a few unknowns in terms of how long it takes people to move through the ride we are allowing a contingency time of 5 minutes and will rehearse the ride to be up to 35 minutes long.
The times are
hour : minutes : seconds.
| 6:40:00 | Audience starts arriving to buy tickets
and meet friends. Tickets are purchased from BATS office doorway and audience are then instructed to go to the Pit Bar to exchange their paper ticket for an entry token. Madeline’s brother David is playing music outside, there is a chestnut seller, and perhaps others. |
Barry David Chestnut Guides |
| 6:50:00 | Ride Guides start giving safety / warning / evacuation briefing to small groups of audience. | Barry David Chestnut Guides |
| 7:00:00 | Styx (Barry) requests a Ride Guide David stops playing and retires to green room (BATS office?) Jessica (lead ride guide) appears at the Pit street door and welcomes people and instructs them to follow her. The audience follows Jessica down alley between BATS and the Fire Station to the entrance. The end of the queue people get briefed by other ride guides if required. Latecomers not permitted (more than 2 minutes!). |
Barry Guides |
| 7:01:00 | The first person enters the ride into the dark Labyrinth | Guides |
| 7:02:30 | The last person enters the ride into the dark Labyrinth | Guides |
| 7:04:30 | The first people exit the Labyrinth and follow Jessica into the ‘Chamber’ space | Guides |
| <Labyrinth individual experience approx. 3 mins> | ||
| 7:05:30 | The last person exits the Labyrinth into
the ‘Chamber’ space Jess announcement / text |
Guides |
| 7:06:00 | Maiden Well attraction begins (Pepper's Ghost) | Guides |
| <Maiden Well group experience 3 mins> | ||
| 7:09:00 | Pepper's Ghost ends, transition / Jessica text (?) | Guides |
| 7:09:30 | Next attraction starts (Laughless Rock) | Guides |
| <Laughless Rock group experience 2 mins> | ||
| 7:11:30 | Finish and curtains part into Diorama seating, audience takes a seat | Guides Kilda |
| 7:12:30 | Audience are seated and Diorama starts (Kilda) | Guides Kilda |
| <Diorama group experience 4min 30sec> | ||
| 7:17:00 | End of Diorama, curtains part and audience move into chamber for Wunderkammen | Guides |
| 7:18:00 | Jess instructs first group of 5 or 6 to enter the Baulbo space (in the bats Bar) – there are 2 groups of 5 and 3 groups of 6 | Guides Pipi |
| 7:18:10 | Baubo vision starts (Pipi) Group 1 (5 people) | Guides Pipi |
| <Baubo individual experience
30sec> <Five small groups of audience take approx 46seconds each group to move into, experience, and move out of the BATS Bar Baubo Space> <From the first people entering the Baubo space to the last people exiting it and estimated time of 4mins has elapsed> |
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| 7:18:40 | Baubo vision ends, Group 1 audience is ushered from room | Guides |
| 7:18:45 | First people (group 1) encounter Divination (Sally) | Guides Sally |
| 7:19:31 | Second group encounter Divination (Sally) | Guides Sally |
| <The total time for the Divination
is 4 mins 45 sec> <Every 46 seconds approx. the audience builds and moves up stairwell around Sally (the audience starts divided into 5 groups but will join together on the stairwell)> |
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| 7:23:30 | Jessica instructs the audience to follow into the Buff’s Hall | Guides Madeline |
| 7:24:00 | Madame D’Ott begins | Guides Madeline |
| <Madame D’Ott group experience 8 mins> | ||
| 7:32:00 | Madame and followers disappear in a puff of smoke, their whispering traces receive applause. | Guides Madeline |
| 7:32:30 | Jessica announces departure from the ride and the audience starts to travel back down the stairs through a fata morgana, rainbow mirage. | Guides |
| 7:33:30 | The audience start exiting the ride out of the front doors of BATS | Guides David Chestnut |
| 7:34:30 | The last audience member exits the ride. | Guides David Chestnut |