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Question

I'm currently working on a play with my theatre ensemble about children in an orphanage who encounter lots of spirits and after listening to the stories of each spirit they have to release them... we are trying to come up with creative way to release the spirits that are both effective but also have a stylistic ring to it - remembering the atmosphere has to be gothic so we cant have any childish thing. We have to release spirits quite a few times so we need quite a few different approaches so it doesnt get boring for the audience.

Also if anyone has any really cool chants to release the spirits with, short and sweet - yet gothic ;)

Thanx all for your help much appreciated :)

Answer 1

Uhm...The spirit could haunt a certain object within the room, in which you need to shake or break it in order for the spirit to be released as well as say a chant which relates to each ghost. Like an old vase could be haunted by a certain spirit and one child needs to say a chant and break the vase in order to release the spirit.  Though I am not sure if you want to encourage children to break things lol. Just a suggestion. :3 Good luck with your play.

Answer 2

try this chant

spirit spirit show your face

spirit spirit show your face

(once spirit shows)

you are not welcome here

you bring nothing but fear

i cast thee out!

out!

out!

made it up. if you like it email me so i know if you use it. also send me pics of the performance?

Answer 3

In America, if you mention the Name of Jesus in school, you do not pass "Go," you do not collect $200- you go straight to the hoosgow! But if you want to indoctrinate the kiddies with paganism, mediumism, witchcraft- that's CULTURE, man!

Well, if I were doing it, I would have a "Seven Labours of Hercules" sort of spin on it.

Each spirit needs something different.

One could require a feat of strength, another of dexterity,

another of agility, another of music and timing,

another of eloquence and rhyme,

another of riddling and puzzling,

another something art and craft (you ever see this "Rolf Harris" guy- he would scribble this total nonsense on a board, no one can make head nor tail of it- flip it upside down- and it is a clever painting of something cool).

Something short and to the point that would bring out the talents of individual kids or groups.

Sorry, I can't think of any chants right now.

Answer 4

you can start out reading out loud and then you can say spirit if you are near say my name spirit if you can hear me say my name  spirit help me

i made it up but send me pics i hope i helped if not mail me

if so send me a picture

living dead rocker

Answer 5

What makes you think childish isn't gothic?  Haven't you ever thought about the lines of all those nursery rhymes?  Hers's a good sample: "Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"

That's not gothic to you? You have to get the original rhymes, of course, not the boring safe versions.  See links below!

Go to your local library, and try to find an old, not-watered down copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales, or other collections of old stories for children before people started trying to wrap their children in bubble wrap from day one.  The original Bluebeard has this above the forbidden door:  "Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold," followed by a graphic scene describing the dead wives of Bluebeard hanging by their hair inside the bloody chamber.  The giant in the original Jack the Giant-killer ground the bones of Englishmen to make flour for his bread.  Fairy tales are meant to be very violent, as you might expect from people who grew up in a world where the consequence of losing a battle was that your city would be destroyed, the men slain out of hand unless they could pay ransom, the women turned over to the soldiers, and the children would have their brains dashed out against the nearest wall.  I found some great old books in my local library, but in case you don't have access I put in some links to gutenberg.org which should help you out.  Happy reading!