I am working with a director who, on opening night, has decided that he wants the 22 year-old soprano, who has previously been chopping the ends off cabbages, to dismember six raw chickens on stage!!!
Surely this is a health and safety risk? There is nowhere in the venue for her to wash her hands, and the surface upon which she is to do the dismembering later in the same scene has a prop doe (covered in fun fur) laid on it, i.e. in the puddle of raw chicken juice. It will be impossible for us to clean the doe.
Can anyone point me at some sort of legislation which would allow us to revert to the much more hygenic cabbage option?
