on stage ship/ferry
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Topic: on stage ship/ferry
Posted By: eagle
Subject: on stage ship/ferry
Date Posted: 10/02/04 at 10:22am
This concerns a scene where Orpheus upon entering Hades, gets the ferryman Charon to get him across...
has anyone out there ever built something akin to a ship or ferry on stage and that is movable? How feasible is this? Should I have the ship/ferry immobile and the scenery move instead? There are supposed to be about 6-7 people/students in it to be 'ferried' across. Thanks for your thoughts on this.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10/03/04 at 4:35pm
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It should be a lot easier to move anything across the stage than to make moveable scenery, unless you have the luxury of a rear projection system. The ferry could be built on a bus -- a platform with casters. You can have just a simple flat cutout of the boat on the front, or construct an entire vessel on the platform. Casters should be fixed (not the swivel type) and lined up perfectly parallel for a bus that moves on a straight line back and forth. They should be large enough to support the weight of the bus and actors. If in doubt, use larger rather than smaller casters. You can pull the bus with a rope hidden behind simple cutouts of waves. Water can also be simulated by a blue or gray sheet of very lightweight fabric, stretched parallel to and a few inches higher than the stage floor and waves created by eigher shaking the ends of the fabric or blowing air from a QUIET fan between the fabric and the floor.
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