stuffed chicken to be plucked
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Topic: stuffed chicken to be plucked
Posted By: Guests
Subject: stuffed chicken to be plucked
Date Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:46pm
Hi -
Does anyone know where I can buy a stuffed real-looking chicken to be
plucked onstage for Mother Courage?
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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 1/27/05 at 1:30am
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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"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 1/31/05 at 1:05am
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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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