Hello!
I know this topic was brought up in another thread, but my situation is a little different because we can't use real tobacco leaves (this is at a college, so budget is an issue).
So far, I've had the most success with brown Kraft paper. It's cheap, which is nice because I'll probably have to make around 500 individual leaves. The biggest issue I'm having is figuring out how to make them behave believably onstage. The director want the actors to be rolling cigars throughout the
play. I'm trying to figure out a way to keep the cigars rolled up. The set designer suggested double sided tape, but it seemed impractical. The costume designer suggested moisture activated glue (the stuff on envelopes). I don't know much about it, so I'll have to do some research.
Does anybody have additional suggestions? In perfect world, I'd like the solution to be temporary so I can reuse the leaves for each performance.