Gonna share some of the #ShowMustGoOnline props-building photos from this week before I delete ‘em to clear the way for Richard III props.

Beware, fake blood & gore ahead!

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This was my bathtub after building the prototype for Lavinia & Titus’ dismembered wrists.

Those wrist stumps? Made from tissue paper, chopsticks, toothbrushes & fake blood.

Nice modern aesthetic added by the fern here.

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Dog-tags for the tomb scene! These guys are made of cardboard, spray-painted silver, dry-brushed with matt black paint.

Unfun fact: in WW1, dog-tags *were* made out of cardboard, which was an extraordinarily bad decision on someone’s part.

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There were a few Easter eggs in the memorial for Titus’ sons.

Michelangelo kept slipping & eventually had to be glued in place. Bad Michelangelo.

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Fake blood: our cast used different recipes depending on the kind of injury being portrayed.

The spraying blood had a red wine or water & food colouring base, with instant coffee mixed in to darken it to give it a nice arterial blood look (& to make sure it showed up onscreen).

The Goths & Andronici’s stage guns: a mixture of painted toy guns & 3D cardboard guns. Can you tell which was which?

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When I was demonstrating the severed-head/hand-in-bag prop during the first rehearsal, I used a bin bag, which is now in place in the bin so I’m looking forward to having forgotten about that & freaking myself out when I take the rubbish out on Friday.

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Here endeth the list of photos, but special props shout-out to @wayneleemfa for Saturninus’ laurel crown, which he made from leaves from a tree outside his window!

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