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Stage alcohol

Thu, 11 Jan 2007, 01:18 pm
Rapunzel5 posts in thread

Stage Alcohol.  I recently did the props for a production which called for the actors to drink an awful lot of red wine.  Hurray for black currant juice!  Very palatable, once we'd established mix of juice to water.  I found that adding a couple of drops of blue food colouring to the bottle gave a good colour on stage. 

I never got the chance to fiddle with the "whiskey" though.  Had to use flat dry giner ale due to quantity to be drunk and apple juice, whilst it's a better colour, can have a nasty effect on digesitve systems if drunk to excess.  A single drop of yellow maybe?

Anyone got any tips for a good "white wine"?  Will probably come up in next farce and I'm anxious to avoid the lime juice the director has suggested as it tastes vile (well, it does to me and a couple of other actors I know so...)

Rapunzel.

Non Alcoholic Childrens Wines

Sat, 13 Jan 2007, 03:05 pm
You can buy non alcoholic wines (used for childrens parties mainly) in red and white. They taste alright and are very handy if an actor doesn't like any look alike alternatives. plus it's just fizzy water with flavouring so it shouldn't have that much of an effect on the digestive system. ~ Tari The Writer is a child forever listening at the keyhole of the adult world.

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