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  • 1.  Practical Effects- Super Strength

    Posted 04-18-2018 14:43
    I have a character in a play this fall with super-strength and I need ideas for practical effects that fit the scene. The setting is a conference room at a women's organization where two detectives are interviewing suspects in a murder. Given that setting, bending a crow-bar doesn't really fit. Smashing a breakaway glass mug seems too easy.

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    Amy Strickland
    Drama Teacher
    AL
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  • 2.  RE: Practical Effects- Super Strength

    Posted 04-18-2018 21:41
    Does the script give you any clues? IOW, does the character do something that prompts a response from another character?

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    George F. Ledo
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  • 3.  RE: Practical Effects- Super Strength

    Posted 04-19-2018 08:16
    Good Morning!
    Are there other things that you can do with flipping a (perceived) heavy table? Maybe use a breakaway chair that he smashes similar to the one in Les Mis during Fantine's death?
    Good luck!

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    James Fry
    Director of Student Life and the Malvern Theatre Society
    Malvern, PA
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