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Arden
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Hi -
Does anyone know where I can buy a stuffed real-looking chicken to be plucked onstage for Mother Courage? |
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Topper
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Even if you could find a realistic-looking chicken with
the feathers attached, there are several questions to consider here -- the most obvious one which comes to mind is: how do you plan on reattaching the feathers for the following performance? Is the stage manager going to have to re-glue or staple a bunch of feathers before every show? Otherwise, your best bet is to fake it somehow. Either mime the action or build a phony chicken-like prop where the feathers can be re-inserted repeatedly. The latter, I'm guessing can be made by sewing a white-canvas pillow in the rough shape of chicken, covering the thing with spray-mount glue and then either dribble loose feathers atop it or roll it in a pile of them. Give it ample time to dry before showtime or your poor actor is going to be flicking feathers off their hands for the rest of the show. |
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missakat
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I SMed Mother Courage last year. What we did for that god-forsaken chicken, was take a rubber chicken, covered the body by gluing little white feathers on it. Then we puctured it about 50 times and inserted medium-big feathers in those puncture holes. The actress who played Courage plucked only a few feathers each night so we only had to reload the feathers once per weekend.
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