Crimes of the Heart: The Kitchen Sink
My final show with Huntingtown High's Eye of the Storm Productions was Crimes of the Heart. It was a comedy. I wasn't in the show, but I actually got its first laugh when I forgot the name of the show in the preshow announcement, which I always enjoyed doing.
This was a very small show, set in an intimate arena theatre setting. The set consisted of a single wall of a homey kitchen.
My task was to create running water in the sink, which was to be used during the show. It was initially suggested by the director when he pitched this project that I use a gravity fed system, like a water tower, to provide water pressure. It would work, but I figured that the water pressure from such a system with a small water tank would only yield a measly passive flow of water. I much rather wanted a gushing forceful flow of water, like one would expect from a nice faucet.
So, I devised a system that used an enclosed water reservoir. Air pressure is fed in from the top of the tank, which would force the water downward, instead of just relying on gravity. This turned out to work quite well.
The tank was hung vertically directly behind the wall, behind where the refrigerator can be seen above. The water hose fed through the wall and into the sink faucet. Two air hoses connected from the top of the tank and led around backstage into another room with an air compressor. It had a tank large enough that it could expend the entire reservoir of water without losing enough pressure to affect the desired flow of water. All I had to do was fill up the tank with water and make sure the compressor was pressurized.
It was a simple enough rig, and it turned out really well, so I was quite happy about it.
Clearly, everybody is so happy about their sink.
