I feel your pain.

Thanks. Makes a lion happier when someone hears him roar. :)

     On stage, a fursuit play could work, but it would demand a high technical skill
level on everybody's part. And gobs of rehearsal. Pro actors would hesitate at that.

     Not at all impossible, though, given a script that takes the challenges into
account. The idea's crossed my mind (and a big idea or two, too).

     Then my eyes crossed at the degree of difficulty. I've done stage work.
Hard, v. hard. No idea if people have tried this.

     On vid, however, the possibilities open up dramatically. Shoot with mics off,
the actors run their [muffled] lines, then the dialog is redone in post, same
as with an animation project.

     This doesn't have to take megabucks, either. Not nowadays. Different
challenges to this, but still.

     Could go further. Won't. Will note that some moderate FX tech might be able
to make the muzzles move in sync with speech. Fursuit makers? Calling all
ambitious techy fursuit makers...

     You gotta know that someday, somebody's going to do it for seriously
real. Sure would like to be there when they do.

FB.

it i possible but yu have to have some friends that are fursuiters that want to try somthng new. Oh well leaves me out >> But someone out there can do it :)

     I'm out too, for sure. Trying to plan and organize a fursuit show (onstage or vid)
would just fweepin' kill me.

     But one thing I do know: there's almost certainly a lot of people in fur fandom who've
had experience with amateur theatre, either in school or elsewhere.

     Those are the people who could do it. Getting some fursuits together for them to wear
is something else. But knowing what it's like to be on stage, and having a little
training: that's the key ingredient, IMHO.

     If the call went out on FA to find some folks like this, you'd find 'em. No
question.

     From there, the other two nuts to crack are script and director. There are limits to what
actors can do onstage in a fursuit, wiith or without muzzle FX. The script has to
fit this (and it has to be goood).

     The director, though, oy, that's gonna be tricky. It is *not* an easy job to get a bunch
of people all pointed the right way on stage. Then you actually gotta get a performance out of
them...

     But can you see it all coming together for a run of shows at AC? Or some other large
con? It'd be the hit of the weekend, hands down.

     Tell you one thing that might be a small step, though. Why not start up a fur playwrights
group? (if there isn't one already).

     Enough people get together around the idea of a fursuit play and you never know, one
might actually happen.


FB.