MLCTheatre Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Hello all! Though I think doing a harness hanging would be really cool, I've seen my share of cautions against it. What are some of your favorite ways you've seen hangings represented (no rope around the neck)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Silhouette? pure sound effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 If you think doing a hanging scene would be cool, after seeing the cautions - then I suspect our opinions are very different on this. Most evocative one I saw was the guilty character climbing up two steps, stopping and seeing the projection of the silhouette of the noose on the cyc, then a blackout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunray Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 A local AmDram of 10-15 years ago did a french revolution play and put up a wonderful rig with working trap door, noose on elastic, a full blown rescue harness with loads of extra padding, the full Monty. Rehearsed it time and time again to perfection, he dropped about 6 inches, screamed, wriggled, went limp then hung there for 10 mins while the crowd jeered and celebrated. Second performance of 4-the screams and wriggling didn't stop. The extra padding had slipped which meant one leg loop was too big and resulted in a ruptured testicle. NO, NOT COOL<br /><br />For the remaining shows they rigged a dummy with strings on legs and arms to make it wriggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLCTheatre Posted October 4, 2017 Author Share Posted October 4, 2017 Yikes yeah no way we want that possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunray Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 The amasing thing was the audience didn't know. The curtain puller/prompt was told to close them by the lighting guy, actors saw that and moved forward to continue the scene while the 'body' was taken down, first aiders (St John or similar) moved him to the dock where the ambulance came to. The bit of the play where he was taken down and paraded as a martyr was done with a quickly constructed dummy. Not a single word was missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkBarl Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Was doing Phantom with a dummy rigged to drop from a trapdoor in the ceiling (Stage had low ceiling) first night, dummy got tangled in cables and didn't drop properly. Second night dropped to far and decapitated the dummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Which is probably the best reason ever for NOT doing "hangings" with a real person and harness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinE Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Actor dies Might be worth doing a 'Val Lewton' and creating effects out of things your audience imagines thay've seen but didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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