My husband and I were hired by a high school to come up with an Audrey II plant for their production of Little Shop of Horrors. They had a limited budget, and they needed it by tonight... and they didn't ask us to do it until Tuesday evening.
For those of you who don't know, Audrey II is among the top well-known theater tech challenges to build along side the shipwreck at the beginning of The Tempest. It is a man-eating plant. It has to be a puppet that can sing and move around, it has to look like it could eat someone by the sheer size of it, and in most productions, it actually has to eat people. Luckily for us, they plan to just go to a blackout when someone is being eaten, so we didn't have to worry about that.
For the fact that we built it in three days, I think this turned out pretty freaking well:
The tongue moves around if you open the mouth wide enough.
For those of you who don't know, Audrey II is among the top well-known theater tech challenges to build along side the shipwreck at the beginning of The Tempest. It is a man-eating plant. It has to be a puppet that can sing and move around, it has to look like it could eat someone by the sheer size of it, and in most productions, it actually has to eat people. Luckily for us, they plan to just go to a blackout when someone is being eaten, so we didn't have to worry about that.
For the fact that we built it in three days, I think this turned out pretty freaking well:
The tongue moves around if you open the mouth wide enough.
