Hi guys,
My theatre group is planning to restage a show early next year so I'm hoping I can get help finding out what's a suitable/best substitute for sand to be used on stage. When we did it before we used actual sand and sieved so as not to scrape the actors since they run/roll/fall into the sand. Problems was the dust from it floating around. And there's a lot of hard work afterwards to clean the space and most of the equipments.
So I'm wondering what is a good substitute for sand in this case? It won't be covering the whole stage just a majority of the area and it need not be thick, I think about and inch at the most. The actors will walk/run/fall/etc on the surface and eventually will change the original configuration of the sand and so it needs to be fairly save for them, i.e they won't slip/scrape themselves.
Sand works fine before I think except for the dust that will rise and I'm sure that'll be a health hazard inhaling it.
I've searched the forums and only the only suggestion that I found was granulated cork. We're thinking of using those shredded foam thingy (the ones that you use to stuff beanbags) but I think the material is just too light and will fly everywhere at the slight breeze. So any ideas?
Oh btw, I'm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I'm sure that will somehow limit the options somewhat coz of the price/availability factors but yeah, any help/ideas is very much appreciated Thanks guys.
My theatre group is planning to restage a show early next year so I'm hoping I can get help finding out what's a suitable/best substitute for sand to be used on stage. When we did it before we used actual sand and sieved so as not to scrape the actors since they run/roll/fall into the sand. Problems was the dust from it floating around. And there's a lot of hard work afterwards to clean the space and most of the equipments.
So I'm wondering what is a good substitute for sand in this case? It won't be covering the whole stage just a majority of the area and it need not be thick, I think about and inch at the most. The actors will walk/run/fall/etc on the surface and eventually will change the original configuration of the sand and so it needs to be fairly save for them, i.e they won't slip/scrape themselves.
Sand works fine before I think except for the dust that will rise and I'm sure that'll be a health hazard inhaling it.
I've searched the forums and only the only suggestion that I found was granulated cork. We're thinking of using those shredded foam thingy (the ones that you use to stuff beanbags) but I think the material is just too light and will fly everywhere at the slight breeze. So any ideas?
Oh btw, I'm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and I'm sure that will somehow limit the options somewhat coz of the price/availability factors but yeah, any help/ideas is very much appreciated Thanks guys.