I have never done anything quite like this for a show.  I have built a few props in my time.  Props are the things actors carry around and use in a play, full name:  properties.

For my students’ shows in the past I have built things to look like food:  a foam rubber three tiered chocolate brown birthday cake, double decker plaster ice cream cones and the occasional foam rubber and fabric chicken drumstick, but for this year’s play, I am creating something edible that will look as though it should never go near a person’s mouth. [Read more…]