Plays w/ actors playing objects

[aces25]

Plays w/ actors playing objects#1

Posted: 12/19/11 at 12:13am

What are some examples of plays in which actors play objects (water, trees, furniture, etc.) but is done as a creative choice?

[jonartdesigns]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #2

Posted: 12/19/11 at 12:32am

Beauty and the Beast ;P
Caroline, or Change

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[willep]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #2

Posted: 12/19/11 at 12:52am

In "Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)" an actor plays the apartment.

[chewy5000]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #3

Posted: 12/19/11 at 12:53am

Starlight Express

[After Eight]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #4

Posted: 12/19/11 at 5:36am

Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird had actors playing bread, sugar, water, fire, various trees.

Some of My Friends had an actor playing a tree.

[Mattbrain]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #5

Posted: 12/19/11 at 8:55am

Didn't several of the women in Coram Boy have to play trees in one scene?

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[littlebutterfly10]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #6

Posted: 12/19/11 at 10:35am

Peter and the Starcatcher is the perfect example for this topic. The cast plays too many different objects to name.

[Gothampc]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #7

Posted: 12/19/11 at 11:44am

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, in the play within a play, Tom Snout plays a wall.

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[henrikegerman]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #8

Posted: 12/19/11 at 12:44pm

Gertrude Stein has many inanimate objects as characters in her plays.

[jpbran]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #9

Posted: 12/19/11 at 1:19pm

Some actors played grass in "Lion King" if I'm remembering correctly.

[defyingravity11]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #10

Posted: 12/19/11 at 1:42pm

Once on this Island

[broadway guy]

Plays w/ actors playing objects #11

Posted: 12/19/11 at 1:44pm

yeah alot of disney shows do that

beauty and the beast- obviously

mary poppins - an actor plays a statue that comes to life

little mermaid - the talking triton

lion king - grass