Recently, Charleston Stage’s Production Stage Manager Ashley Palmer and Charleston Stage Resident Actor Pen Chance (now our Properties Production Assistant) held a workshop with our High School TheatreWings Apprentices on creating fake food props. They had two days of workshops at our new scene shop in West Ashley. The main focus of this prop workshop was to teach our TheatreWings Apprentices on how to create fake food props and specifically work on props for our season opening production of “Hairspray”.
Featured in the photos below is a tray of pink assorted donuts that the “Hairspray” character Edna brings on stage. The donuts are made from household socks and the icing is a combination of pink felt, glitter and paint.
Also featured, and probably the biggest prop our TheatreWings Apprentices created during the workshop, is a 4 ft hoagie sandwich. The first step was carving the bread out of foam, which Resident Actor Pen Chance tackled. While Pen worked on carving the bread, the TheatreWings Apprentices cut out and painted the meats, cheeses, tomatoes and more. Also built during the workshop was a pecan pie created from spread memory foam and an empty pie tin and other desserts such as a 3-layered strawberry fruit cream cake.
Come see the final products on stage at the Historic Dock Street Theatre! “Hairspray” performances run Sept. 7 – 25, 2016, and tickets are available by clicking here. To learn more about our High School TheatreWings Apprentice Program click here.
