*NOTE* - This is a performance piece.  No actor is actually hurt in any way.  All aspects of the performance are carefully staged.

    The audience enter the auditorium. There is barely enough light for them to see the chairs that they must sit on, which form an octagon around the performance area. A voice booms out from the darkness requesting that the audience tie the loose rope, which is by their chairs, to their arm. They are then ordered to move to their left every time they hear a whistle blow. When they are settled slowly the lights are turned up. so that they audience are aware of the performers (set 1). Dressed in black they stand in a circle surrounding a tall shroud covered in a thick black sheet. Soft lilting music can be heard from the speakers as the performers move around the performance area, miming the playful movements of young Victorian children (Skipping, jumping, pushing a hoop, spinning a top). The lights suddenly flash off. Uncomfortably loud, industrial metal music can be heard through the speakers. The lights switch on full beam (set 2) and the performers now face each other (masked) in a square, still surrounding the shroud. Strobe light. The performers move mechanically towards each other appearing to buckle under the weight of heavy objects (mimed), which must be passed to one another. Whenever one performer reaches another a whistle blows and they have to go back to their starting positions and begin the robotic mime again. All the while the audience must move to the left every time they hear the whistle. This continues for three to four minutes depending on how long the rope takes to get taut. A final whistle is blown at the same time the lights are switched off, so that the audience is in blackness again. Then a loud piercing scream is heard and the lights come on full pelt to show the performers in tableaux screaming and pointing to the foreman (previously hidden under the black sheet) hung by a rope that is tied around his/her neck with a whistle in his/her mouth. This is the same rope that is attached to the audiences' wrists. Silence as the audience realize that they have killed the foreman.  The End.