I have an interesting challenge that I would love some advice on: I have to make paper fall from the sky.
I work in a proscenium theatre with a fly system. However, we're doing Dead Man's Cellphone by Sarah Ruhl and the director wanted it in the round- so we've put all the seats onstage and brought in our orchestra shell and flown in a cyc to close off the wing space and create a smaller, in-the-round space on stage. So my only access to the stage floor is via our fly system and two open spaces between orch. wall and cyc. I can't get over the walls and my cats are 100 yards away.
I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for how to make multitudes of card stock and various sized paper fall from the sky.
So far, all I've come up with is making a snow cradle with larger slits for the paper- but my concern is that the paper may just slide over the holes instead of through them depending on how well they shake out, or I make the holes too big and the "paper cradle" never holds the paper long enough for me to fly it in and out every night. Any ideas?
I work in a proscenium theatre with a fly system. However, we're doing Dead Man's Cellphone by Sarah Ruhl and the director wanted it in the round- so we've put all the seats onstage and brought in our orchestra shell and flown in a cyc to close off the wing space and create a smaller, in-the-round space on stage. So my only access to the stage floor is via our fly system and two open spaces between orch. wall and cyc. I can't get over the walls and my cats are 100 yards away.
I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for how to make multitudes of card stock and various sized paper fall from the sky.
So far, all I've come up with is making a snow cradle with larger slits for the paper- but my concern is that the paper may just slide over the holes instead of through them depending on how well they shake out, or I make the holes too big and the "paper cradle" never holds the paper long enough for me to fly it in and out every night. Any ideas?