DESIGN CONCEPT

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What I was trying to build is a space that manifests the interactions of emotions. I was inspired by the symbol of Rube Goldberg machine symbol as “man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results,” and thus regarded all the scenes in this play as different parts of the machinery. The Rube Goldberg machine Number 3 assembles for his search of fire, the office area, and the cafeteria; All the spaces in the play overlap in the same way as our emotions, generalizing all the events and consequently generating unexpected impacts.  

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To me, the whole stage is a Rube Goldberg machine that is powered by emotions and channeled by daily objects. The reason why I built the machinery in ordinary office supplies is that those objects are often embedded with subtle yet important emotional imprints, each of which reflects the personality of its owner or the possible causal relation of an event in a macroscopic examination. That is, the machine is triggered by the unintentional actions of the characters in various situations. In the end, the authentic yet fragile energy of emotions is finally released and seen after a series of accumulations and transformations in the process of emotional interflow.