[SML] Dead body?

[Pat Kight]

Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:
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> On 02/06/2018 08:31 AM, dale via Stagecraft wrote:
>> Bulk up from the skeleton with bubble wrap, foam packing sheets and
>> packing  tape to make the body. Make the head out of one of those
>> Styrofoam head shapes that wig makers use.  Paint the head in desired
>> skin tones.
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> The bubble wrap gives the added feature sound effects on impact, but
> you'll have to replace it as it gets popped.
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> Probably also don't want it to bounce too much, so more foam and less
> air bags would probably be good.

If you want to add a bit of weight to make the 
lugging-it-up-to-the-ramparts bit more realistic, add a bag or two of 
potting soil, taped securely to the "skeleton's" torso section, with 
lots of gaff. Bonus: the *thump* when it hits the deck is rather 
gruesomely realistic.

(I used this technique to make the dead-goat-inna-bag prop that has to 
be dragged onstage in Albee's "The Goat," dampening the bag with water 
just before its entrance to produce a "blood" trail that was plausible 
enough to draw "ewwwwws" from the audience in a small black-box space. 
Bonus: After the run, I dismantled the prop and used the potting soil in 
my garden.)

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Pat Kight