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The assistant easily takes out a small ladder-ladder with a small platform at the top. He puts a ladder in the back of the stage. An illusionist comes out, accompanied by an assistant dressed in a Chinese costume with a large Chinese umbrella in her hands.

The performer invites the girl to climb the stairs. She stands on the upper platform and rotates the umbrella, covering her face with it. Continuing to rotate the umbrella, the assistant gradually covers her head and shoulders, chest, waist, then, squatting, completely disappears behind the rotating umbrella. The girl is not visible, but the umbrella continues to rotate, falling lower and lower, then falls onto the landing of the stairs, continuing to rotate all the time. The illusionist approaches, raises an umbrella, holds it in his hands in bewilderment: the girl has disappeared without a trace. The assistant folds the ladder and easily carries it backstage.

The secret of the illusion and working with it. The ladder is simple only in appearance. Between her legs, facing the depth of the stage, a material of the same color as the backdrop will be stretched. The same material is also laid on the floor. When the ladder is placed, its preparation is completely invisible (Fig. 200, A).

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Fig. 200

On fig. 200, B shows a side view of the ladder; a part of the back is also visible. On fig. 200, B shows the top of the ladder-platform with an umbrella. The end of the straight handle of the umbrella is threaded into the ring K, screwed into the platform. It does not allow the umbrella to fall and allows the performer to turn the handle of the umbrella, standing behind the ladder, until the moment when the illusionist pulls it out of the ring.

Now it is clear how the girl disappears. Climbing the ladder and gradually closing herself with an umbrella, she crouches down and finally, under the cover of the same umbrella, climbs down behind the drapery attached to the ladder, continuing to turn the handle. Then, at the right moment, the assistant disappears, leaving through the back curtain.

We offer a small improvement that will allow you to show the stairs both before the start of the performance and after it ends.

You can not cover the distance between the leaves of the stairs with matter. It remains unprepared in any way except for the K ring. Lay a rug of the same color about 150x150 cm in size near the back (at a distance of one and a half meters from the stairs) so that it lies close to the middle of the curtain. Then, at a distance of one meter from the backdrop, put a small frame with fabric stretched over it. The material should be exactly the same as the backdrop, and draped in folds. The height and width of the frame must exactly match the height and width of the installed ladder. It is better to make the edges of the drapery uneven so that they blend better with the background of the backdrop.

All this must be precisely adjusted in advance and checked from different points of view. A frame with drapery placed in this way (or, as illusionists call it, a “Spanish wall”) will allow you to show the stairs to the audience, then accurately attach it to the “wall”, behind which there may be an assistant or a second small ladder is placed (it will make it easier for the assistant to descend).

Stage lighting can play a big role in showing the illusion. It must be used in such a way as to make the "wall" completely indistinguishable from the backdrop against the background of the same rug.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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