....... a real person!
(no not a cadaver an actor acting)
That's impossible, we know from Microsoft commercials that actors are not real people.
This may sound crazy but if there is anyway you can incorporate a big bladder of water, think a bunch of hot water bottles. Water, makes a great weight @ 8 pounds a gallon and since it'll be sloshing about < inside the bladders> it will make for a realistic " Dead Weight" look.
Thing about using an actor is breathing. Even if laying face-down it's hard to hide the rise and fall of the stomach and lungs.
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Thing about using an actor is breathing. Even if laying face-down it's hard to hide the rise and fall of the stomach and lungs.
I'm sure there's a good solution out there somewhere. ....
Thanks for all the advice. I am looking for an alternative to using an actual person, I would like to use it as a project in stagecraft class for my students and seem to be having a creative brain block on the subject.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
My advice to you, if you ever get invited to play the part of a corpse in an opera, is: Ask questions. ...
Eugene Opera turned out to be a very professional outfit featuring baritones, sopranos, bassoons, tremors, mezzanines, etc. ...
The plot of ''Gianni Schicchi'' is that Buoso is dead, and a bunch of people sing very loudly about this in Italian for 45 minutes of opera time, which, for a normal human, works out to roughly a month. I spent most of this time lying still on the bed with my mouth open. This turns out to be very difficult. When you have to hold perfectly still in front of hundreds of people, you become a seething mass of primitive bodily needs. You develop overpowering urges to swallow, twitch, scratch, burp, emit vapors and -- above all -- lick your lips. ''YOU NEED TO LICK YOUR LIPS RIGHT NOW!'' is the urgent message your brain repeatedly sends to your tongue. You find yourself abandoning all concerns about personal hygiene and praying that Puccini was thoughtful enough to include a part in ''Gianni Schicchi'' where the singers decide, for whatever reason, to lick the corpse's lips.
But this is not what happens. What happens is that the singers, while searching for Buoso's will, shove the corpse off the bed, the result being that I had to hold perfectly still while upside-down, with my face smushed into a low footstool and my legs in the air, through several arias (''aria'' is Italian for ''song that will not end in your lifetime''). Fortunately, under my nightgown I was wearing tights, so the audience was never directly exposed to my butt, which could have triggered a potentially deadly stampede for the exits.
Am I the only one who first thought that you were looking for the disposal of dead bodies?
However, when we use dead bodies, we just have people lie on a bed. And play dead.
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