[SML] Dragging a mailbox across a stage.....

[Jon Ares]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Don Taco via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> I'd use wheels. It takes a lot less of my time and effort to teach an
> actor to act than it does to repair gouges in my stage floor.


Bill:  The floor is masonite (black box).  Steven: Yeah, like Joe says, I
feel anything 'soft' on the bottom of a leg is going to snag on a seam.
Joe: furniture glides: I hate-hate-hate the nail-on type - they always get
snagged and rip off, sometimes leaving a pokey, sharp thing rolling around
on the stage floor, waiting to stab an actor, or get caught under a caster
on rolling scenery.  (No rolling scenery this time, but actors crawling
around on the floor, to be sure.)  Don: no wheels... it's a black box, and
no amount of acting is going to hide the fact she's roll-dragging a mailbox
that she allegedly unbolted from the concrete.  (Then apparently took the
time to fabricate wheels.)   :)

I'm considering some sort of UMHW-type product fastened to angle iron, if
only I could find a local source for it. (Other than the glue-on/nail-on
furniture slides, which wouldn't work well when the mailbox is tipped and
dragged.)


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Jon Ares
www.arescreative.com
http://backstagethreads.com
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