Hello all,
I'm currently gearing up to stage manage a production of Chekov's "The Seagull" and I could use some advice on how to handle building two of the props for the show. I did a search already and only one thread from 2007 came up, but it wasn't much help.
I need to build a life size dead seagull. The director wants it to actually have feathers and flop about like an actual dead bird before it hits rigor. I also need to give it a gunshot wound complete with blood. She has decided it was not shot with bird shot but a bullet from a hand gun so that the wound would be visible.
The second prop I need to build is a replica of the same bird, sans gun shot, mounted to a piece of driftwood.
Every idea I run by her that I find elsewhere and pictures of possible rentals are not up to snuff. I know these are doable, but I don't know where to start.
Any ideas?