Pulleys In Pride And Prejudice

I am on the crew for the theater department at my high school. One problem that I had was for the play Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl. So, one of the things that had to be made was an elevator that functioned as well as having to rain inside the elevator as well. The first thing that had to be done was that the crew had to figure out how an elevator worked While being able to build it in the time limit that we had. Another problem that was added to making the elevator was that it had to be able to be taken apart so it could be transported to other schools along with the rest of the set. It was decided that a belt and pulley system would be used to make the elevator operational. Because the elevator had to carry a person safely the technical director
There were four crew members that were needed to operate the elevator first, someone started the elevator by pulling on a rope on another pulley that was connected to the cart to help move the cart slowly he was also the main control of the elevator, while the second and third person held the cables that were connected to the first set of pulleys so they would not get caught on the cart, finally, the fourth person was on a little platform acting as a counterweight for the actor on the cart. Because time was running short to finish the elevator, making the elevator rain was not as good as we would have wanted it to be but it was working. The way that it rained was there were was a water bottle that had holes in it that after pulling a rope tied to it would angle the bottle so the water would flow out of the holes in it. Because the elevator had to be raining multiple times there was extra water bottles that were set up so after one was emptied then a full one could replace it. In the end all of the problems that were arising were solved while in time for the plays to happen as they were suppose to