We're doing Two Gentlemen, and in the second scene Julia gets a letter which she tears up, throws on the ground, then regrets and has a whole monologue dealing with the pieces of paper on the ground. "Wind, blow not a word away" is a line that sticks in my head as we are performing outdoors in an often windy space. At tonight's dress, sure enough, the heavyweight cardstock we had picked for the letter flew away almost as soon as it had left her hands, making her monologue fairly pointless.
We tried soaking the letter to give it more weight; we tried adding dabs of hot glue to each going-to-be-torn piece; I'm not finding a lot of success. I know somebody out there has faced this problem before; was there a good prop solution that didn't leave the actress in an awkward position?
Thanks,