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    Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:10am
The other set of props that I am working on for "Taming of the Shrew" is food.  The director really wants the cast to have some sort of food fight when Petrochio regects dinner in order to starve Kate.  Well I got a lot of fake bread and fruit and vegetables but the problem is that they are light and don't throw or thump like the real thing.  Do you think we should use real food?  Weight the plastic food with sawdust or something?  Any ideas?
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bullet Posted: 5/30/06 at 4:10pm

Our extremely over-worked but blessedly talented prop mistress made fake food out of canvas bean-bags.  She created patterns for chicken legs, potatoes, cabbages and other vegetables, sewed them out of cotton canvas and filled them with dried rice.   They were painted quite convincingly (The cabbages were masterful -- simply a rounded bean-bag with extra cloth "leaves" sewn in place.) 

They were relatively non-injurous (although you didn't want to get hit in the eye with one), very durable with a nice heft to them, were fun to throw.  In fact, it was getting the cast to STOP throwing them at each other that was the difficult part.

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bullet Posted: 5/30/06 at 9:54pm
 Besides the great idea of Toppers props mistress [are props allowed to have a mistress?].
You could pump some silicon sealant into the plastic ones!
Or give the warm props a bit of slap stick, using coloued shaving cream foam custard pies!

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