Stupid F---ing Bird (the play)

[davebruka]

Has anyone done Stupid F---ing Bird? I'm looking for advice on the light fixture getting shot

 

[Chris15]

Mod note: Thread title has been amended, the original was open to misinterpretation on a passing glance...

 

[Dionysus]

Never heard of the show. Care to share the stage directions and other notes so we can help regardless?

 

[icewolf08]

Great show...
Lots of ways to do it:

1. Just use a combination of lighting and sound effects. Gunshot + glass break sound effect with a quick flash of the practical before it just goes out. This is simple, safe, and effective
2. Modify your practical so that you are not using a real light bulb. Make a light bulb out of sugar-glass and mount an LED inside to make it light up. Then after the gunshot you just need a little mechanism to break the sugar glass. It will look like the lamp exploded, but again be pretty safe. This could be a little more expensive depending on the number of performances and how many sugar-glass lamps you need.
3. IF AND ONLY IF you have someone (or the budget to hire a professional) who is a licensed pyro, you could do a simple pyro effect when the lamp breaks. More expensive, requires licensed supervision, and the most dangerous of all the scenarios.

 

[Van]

Never heard of the show. Care to share the stage directions and other notes so we can help regardless?

It's an adaptation of Checkovs "The Seagull".