<div dir="ltr">As Oliver told Hoffman "All you have to do is ACT!" (And do your stunts and don't trip over the furniture)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Richard Niederberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ladesigners@gmail.com" target="_blank">ladesigners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Whatever happened to skilled actors who could do these stunts? Actors have been safely going off the ramparts in Tosca for hundreds of years, for example...</div><div>/s/ Richard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:36 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Another thought, depending on the length of your run, is to contact your local FD/EMS agencies.  There are very lifelike training mannequins out there that they may loan.  The weight of these varies from Quite-Light to What-the-Heck-Did-You-Have-For<wbr>-Breakfast-This-Morning. The former work better for your needs.<br>
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We’ve built them for shows, and the internal skeleton is helpful for maintaining shape. PVC bones, joined with tieline so that the limbs can flop, also work well to create the skeleton.<br>
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- Jim Dougherty<br>
ATD, Middlebury College Theatre Dept.<br>
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