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Two Words: Vomit Rehearsal !

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Van
, August 20th, 2011 at 04:21 PM (1516 Views)
Spent Four hours playing with the actors, Sm's and the Director.... and vomit.
We were told that there was a vegetarian, dehydrated, pea soup that makes excellent vomit for this trick. It's true, it does. Here's what I have found, however. It must be strained through a rather small strainer, at least three times. There is a LOT of floating... Um,.... fiber. It has the consistency of paper pulp. and like paper pulp is tends to clog up anything it catches on. The other 'Ick' Factor? It has an added smoke flavor, somewhere between good bacon and bad beefy jerky. I would like to point out, as a side note, just how Ironic it is that Vegetarian pea soup smells like bacon. If you have to make it smell like bacon to get someone to eat it, well... you get my point.
Discovered a lot of interesting thing about pnuematically actuated hydraulic systems. Things like, the lower the puke level in the holding tank the more volume of air it takes to pressurize the system to the point of..... expellation <?> Anyway, lot's of fun < other than smelling like I just cooked, or wallowed, in a ton of bacon> and the Actors were troupers ! Sitting through a 4 hour rehearsal in pea soup damp clothes, get 'puke' in their face, up their nose, in their mouth and in their eyes and mostly just laughing about it. More later.
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  1. JChenault's Avatar
    Just as and FYI I saw the show at the Seattle Rep ( much bigger venue than Van's space) and they did it with ( I think) water. There was no odor and it looked clear. They also 'Ejected' HUGE amounts of the stuff over a 20 square foot area - with enough pressure so it really spurted.

    Lots of 'fun' and extremely unexpected.
  2. Van's Avatar
    Actually they did the effect with the same stuff as us < we got the advice for what to use from them and they rented us the customized ( laminated) art books which get vomited on> We actually went through a little bit more per show than they did.
    I'm actually working on compiling a manual right now. I'm hoping to post it here as a collabrative article. It's titled, " The wonderful Vomit filled world of God of Carnage". I have quite a few pics of how we did it, how the whole thing is run and a lot of "This is why we did it this way" stuff.
  3. secondtino's Avatar
    Van,

    Looks like I'll be dealing with this show next season... have you a rough draft of the vomit manual you might be willing to share? :-)
  4. Van's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by secondtino
    Van,

    Looks like I'll be dealing with this show next season... have you a rough draft of the vomit manual you might be willing to share? :-)
    As a matter of fact I am working a document right now. I was trying to put together an article for CB but I have recieved so manner requests at my work email and I have been respondingto them directly. This has been quite the busy season for us and I haven't had a lot of time to compile all the info in one place. I did work on it some this weekend and hope to have something I can email or share on here byt the end of the week. Please feel free to contact me at my work email address with any specifics or urgent needs and I will get to them ASAP.