The Foreigner: Technical Problems
The Foreigner has a scene in it where a guy in a Ku Klux Klan costume has to "melt" into the floor. This is done by lowering him into the floor through a trap door while his sheets stay above. The stage of the theater where TEA performs doesn't have a trap door.
Other than building a platform on the stage and thus raising the performance area another four feet or so, does anyone have any ideas of what we could do instead?
Comments
Does he have to be visible to the audience when it happens? If not, perhaps other characters could gather in front of him while he's going down and then he could crawl under the curtain. When the characters move back out of the way his costume (or a spare) could be left there on the floor.
Not really, with the water, but that's funny! "What a world!"
It's really necessary the audience see this happen. It's set up way in advance that there's a trap door to the cellar there, but the Klan members don't know about it. What's funny is that the audience knows what's happening, but the Klansmen don't.
That sounds neat! I don't know if it would work with the rest of our set, but it's something to look at.