The one used for 'background gore' as Ian charmingly put it, is made from cornflour, water, food colouring and a dash of washing up liquid. While it is cheap the disadvantage of this recipe is that it needs to be cooked for a couple of hours.
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| Ian cooking up a cauldron of blood. |
If more liquid blood is needed, for example if it needs to drip off a freshly used knife, then a different recipe with golden syrup, water and food colouring is used. Ian discovered that different brands of golden syrup give different blood qualities. The best was a generic brand, Tate & Lyle wasn't thick enough.
The final type of blood is used in one scene that is lit with a red light so the red bloods wouldn't show. This one is made with black molasses and water. This blood has to be spat out by one of the characters. One of the stage management team injects a shot of the dark blood into her mouth using a turkey baster.
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| Testing the finished product |
All the blood makes work for for the stage managers. The floor ends up covered in sticky syrup and part of the set wall will have to be repainted every night.
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Coming up -
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Adapted by Robert Kauzlaric 19th - 28th January 2012
Auditions for Mindgame by Anthony Horowitz at Progress Theatre Tuesday 2nd February 2012 7.30pm or Sunday 5th February 2pm
Art by Yasmina Reza 20th - 25th February 2012
See Progress Theatre website for details of all our productions and auditions.
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