wooden leg

[moya holmes]

Does anyone have any advice on how to create Long John Silver's wooden leg - for Treasure Island - if the actor is not able to "strap up" his lower leg  - ie. under a long skirted coat?

thank you 

[DrV]

How comic/serious is the production? For a panto style production I'd try to make a hollow fibreglass casing that looked like a log, even complete with side shoots and leaves. No good for a serious show though.

[alistermorton]

Have a look at the medical peglegs for inspiration in how to attach something. 

[Jivemaster]

Papier mache cast done round the real leg with straps and buckles. Make it long enough that it restricts knee and ankle movement  and reminds him to walk a prosthetic not a real leg. A real prosthetic would be a really sickly looking "flesh" colour. A PANTO prosthetic could be anything from plank shape to branch shape and anything else. In a real prosthetic the ankle joint would have very limited articulation -if any, which is what makes the gait impaired.  

[bruce]

20 hours ago, DrV said:

How comic/serious is the production? For a panto style production I'd try to make a hollow fibreglass casing that looked like a log, even complete with side shoots and leaves. No good for a serious show though.

Loads of options for comedy here - if that's the style. Thinking of the stage show from "Still Game", in the Glasgow Hydro, where one of the characters lost his artificial leg, and it was replaced by various items - including a ukulele - cue lots of sound effects as he moved across the stage...