<div dir="ltr">Dear Jim,<div>As Olivier told Hoffman, "All you have to do is ACT". The audience WILL suspend their disbelief of not seeing the vomit, if the acting performance is sufficiently convincing. A talented magician can make you 'see' what you didn't see. I know that it is not our job to teach acting, but we CAN help to make a performance more convincing, without tainting the return air to the auditorium with a vomit smell or changing 'blood' packets placed in the mouth into 'vomit' packets.</div><div>/s/ Richard</div><div>_________</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Dougherty, Jim via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For a recent production, we made a rig that the actor wore under a hoodie. On a motocross back protector we mounted a pipe-based air tank, solenoid valve and batteries for the valve. A microswitch went to the actor's front pocket. A tube filled with fake vomit (water and cornstarch, plugged with closed cell foam ball) went down her sleeve to her wrist. She put her hand in her pocket over her stomach, aimed the other hand by her mouth then triggered the valve.<br>
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Same rig with different pressure and tube contents/routing put her "brains" onto the wall behind her when her head "exploded" later in the play.<br>
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Her character had a really bad day.<br>
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- Jim<br>
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> On Aug 24, 2016, at 1:47 PM, "<a href="mailto:stagecraft-request@theatrical.net">stagecraft-request@<wbr>theatrical.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:stagecraft-request@theatrical.net">stagecraft-request@<wbr>theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Re: [SML] God Of Carnage Vomit<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">/s/ Richard<br>_________</div>
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