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Laughter on the 23rd Floor Set Ideas Needed

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Topic: Laughter on the 23rd Floor Set Ideas Needed

Posted By: GracieLea
Subject: Laughter on the 23rd Floor Set Ideas Needed
Date Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:58pm

Greetings, all!
I am directing Laughter this spring and would love to hear ideas on two tricky set issues:

1) There are to be three holes punched in a wall during the show, and the holes remain throughout.

2) Writing on a wall with ink - need a clean "slate" for each performance.

Thank you for ideas on these (and other) challenges with the show.

GracieLea

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Posted By: gelcat
Date Posted: 3/21/11 at 2:12pm

Unfamiliar with the play:

when you say 'punched', you mean with a fist?

writing on wall with ink - what kind of ink pen?

What is the period of the play?

What is the period of the building?

My first reaction is lots and lots of wallpaper that can be pieced in

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Posted By: GracieLea
Date Posted: 3/21/11 at 2:32pm

Hi Gelcat,

Yes, punched with a fist, leaving a hole which will have a frame placed around it.

The script calls for "indelible ink"- not sure what the actual writing instrument will be.

The play is set in 1953, and I haven't noticed anything that stipulates in what period the building would have been constructed, so we could make it contemporary to 1953, or go earlier.

Thanks for you consideration!

Posted By: vickifrank
Date Posted: 3/22/11 at 9:48am

For the punched holes.....cut jagged holes in plasterboard...then cover them with butcher paper glued to a piece of syrafoam cut to fit the hole. Glue edges of paper to the wall and mark with a small x in center. Actor puches the x. the paper now acts like wallboard because it's glued to syrafoam and thus breaks out a 'chunk' You use real wallboard on the wall or luan not canvas, so that the wall doesn't wobble or shake.

for indelible ink...glue butcher paper to appropriate place on the wall, rip off when show is over and replace. Alternatively use waterbased marker, then wipe off worst of it and repaint section after show each night if needed. Alternatively, use photographer's background paper (about $30/roll comes in colors and very large sizes) over entire flat from top to bottom--rip off when done.

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Posted By: GracieLea
Date Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:02am

THANKS VickiFrank! Great ideas!!

Posted By: bronco1pat
Date Posted: 7/26/11 at 12:49pm

Hey http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=2760&FID=1 -

Posted By: startingout
Date Posted: 9/19/11 at 11:58am

How Transparency Film and use washable markers on it

Wipe off after the show