Need help with props

Hi guys, I'm a student director at my high school who's attempting to tackle Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman."

As some of you may or may not know, there's a scene where a small girl gets crucified in the show. Not only is that sick and twisted, it's the most frustrating scene to find a prop for, because I have to somehow conjure a wooden cross large enough for a small girl (about 12 or 13 years of age) to stand on without tipping over.

This is a shot in the dark, but would any of you know where I could get my hands on something like that? I asked the school to give me some help, but the only response I got was "go to Home Depot and build one yourself."

Thanks for your help!

Damn... The pillowman at a high school? How are you pulling that off?

We ended up finding that the stories didn't necesserily need to be fully acted out with props, blood and all. We used suggestive lighting, neutral masks, and stylized movement which ended up working out just as well, if not better. The stylized movement worked to move the audience's imagination in the same way as reading a good story. Plenty of gasps and stifled screams. The roles of the Mother and Father were played by Tupolski and Ariel and Michal played the Writer's Brother as well, which kind of worked out perfectly in the long run. The neutral mask worn by the characters was slipped on while Michal was strangled, so as he died he, in a sense, became a character. And of course, in the end when Katurian pulls off the execution mask he wore a neutral mask underneath, from which blood poured out underneath and out form the eye sockets. That really made people sick.

I tell the story of our production in order to suggest thinking about this scene in a less realistic, though possibly more impactful way.

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