AuntieBellum
Expert
Yes, I said "theatre" not "theater." I mean plays, musicals, live acting, not movies and popcorn.
I'm on the board for a local theatre group, so the topic of guns actually comes up quite a bit. There are TONS of plays and musicals with guns in them. Just this past March I performed in a murder mystery in which nearly every character had a gun. The audience literally sat at tables in the action, so we wanted them to look as real as possible. We ended up with an assortment of air soft, cap, and starter guns, spray painted where necessary to cover orange tips, etc.
At the end of the show, my character, caught as the murderer, shot herself. I was asked to use the starter gun. Have you ever used an old starter gun? The blast is actually quite impressive! Well, I refused and instead used a cap gun. Even with it only being a cap gun, I did not let anyone else touch it EVER. It stayed with me the whole time, and I triple-checked it each night before concealing it since I knew I'd have to point it at my heart each night and pull the trigger.
Anyway...
One of my theatre nut friends is in another theatre group and was on facebook last night asking for pre-1952 guns to use in their show.
Like, real guns.
So I asked if they had thought about trying pellet guns or another alternative since I wouldn't be very trusting of my neighbor's gun being unloaded.
He simply responded that they wanted them to look realistic and that the guns wouldn't be loaded and that nobody probably had any 7.62 ammo anyway (that's what another friend offered to let him borrow).
I'm not really sure what I'm asking for here - he can do whatever he wants, I guess. I just know that if I were in that show, I'd be quitting when I found out the others were carrying real guns and pointing them at me during the show. And I'd be telling the audience to stay home. Or maybe they're all just willing to destroy each other?
Gun safety FAIL.
I'll happily pm you the theatre location if you were planning on going to a play in northwest Indiana anytime soon.
I'm on the board for a local theatre group, so the topic of guns actually comes up quite a bit. There are TONS of plays and musicals with guns in them. Just this past March I performed in a murder mystery in which nearly every character had a gun. The audience literally sat at tables in the action, so we wanted them to look as real as possible. We ended up with an assortment of air soft, cap, and starter guns, spray painted where necessary to cover orange tips, etc.
At the end of the show, my character, caught as the murderer, shot herself. I was asked to use the starter gun. Have you ever used an old starter gun? The blast is actually quite impressive! Well, I refused and instead used a cap gun. Even with it only being a cap gun, I did not let anyone else touch it EVER. It stayed with me the whole time, and I triple-checked it each night before concealing it since I knew I'd have to point it at my heart each night and pull the trigger.
Anyway...
One of my theatre nut friends is in another theatre group and was on facebook last night asking for pre-1952 guns to use in their show.
Like, real guns.
So I asked if they had thought about trying pellet guns or another alternative since I wouldn't be very trusting of my neighbor's gun being unloaded.
He simply responded that they wanted them to look realistic and that the guns wouldn't be loaded and that nobody probably had any 7.62 ammo anyway (that's what another friend offered to let him borrow).
I'm not really sure what I'm asking for here - he can do whatever he wants, I guess. I just know that if I were in that show, I'd be quitting when I found out the others were carrying real guns and pointing them at me during the show. And I'd be telling the audience to stay home. Or maybe they're all just willing to destroy each other?
Gun safety FAIL.
I'll happily pm you the theatre location if you were planning on going to a play in northwest Indiana anytime soon.
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