Simple armor projects

We've been busy with USITT and production on Assassins, but some of my students presented simple armor projects today. Here are some photos!

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"Dead dog" project for props

For the current show, Assassins, painter/dyer Denise Dietrich and I wound up lending a hand to our props department and creating a "dead dog."

In one scene of the show, the character of Sarah Jane Moore has a dead dog in her handbag, which she takes out and drops on the ground. Our fake dog needed to be realistic-looking, and to have the weight and limpness of, well, a dead dog.

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