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tragic_fiend
Walk-On Joined: 9/27/04 Location: Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Topic: Directing "Lie Cheat & Genuflect" Posted: 9/27/04 at 2:12pm |
Has anyone directed this play before? Our performance is November 19th and 20th for our local community theatre group, and I am the AD. However, the Director and I had a few questions and were looking for some feedback, so if anyone has been in or directed this play, assistance would be very appreciated. For example: Did you light the closet? If so, directly or indirectly? Did you use breakaway glass for the vase and bottle that Billy and PizzaFace get hit with? Are there other options that would produce the same effect? Did you change Billy's voice when he was a nun? Any tips on the "tossing the baby" scenes? Again, any help that can be given would be appreciated! |
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NickH.
Player Joined: 10/05/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 10/10/04 at 6:39pm |
We used a plastic bottle that Pizza Face and Billy gets hit with. Pizza Face then does a forward summersault and plops flat on the floor. The extra action detracts from the fact that the bottle doesn't break. We didn't light the closet. There was enough glow from the stage lights. Our Billy did change his voice -- but that should be a director's call. It may be funnier if your Billy uses his normal voice. The screwball nature of this farce gives you licence to do what's funny, not what's "believable." Both my actors played football in college so tossing the baby became a great shtick. An extra touch: We used a stereo amplifier for the baby crying sound effect and panned the sound to follow the action on stage. In another production I saw, they used a tape player hidden on the food cart, but clicking the on and off controls was too obvious and the mechanical noises of the tape player too distracting. |
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