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Post by londonpostie on Nov 29, 2019 21:25:25 GMT
Hobbyist writer here! I'm finding it hard to not include a horse in a particular play - it won't be charging up and down, in a stable is enough though walking around the stage a bit would be wonderful. In the real world it would probably have to be of the 'warhorse meets panto horse' breed but in my imagination it's seductively braying on the Lyttelton stage in front of spellbound full house/stable.
So your starter for ten is The Ferryman (rabbit, goose); have you seen any live non-humans ?
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Post by Jon on Nov 29, 2019 21:33:29 GMT
I’ve seen a dog in Shakespeare in Love and Legally Blonde, the rabbits and geese in The Ferryman and and a snake in Anthony and Cleopatra.
Oddly I’ve never seen a cat used as part of a play
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 29, 2019 21:35:19 GMT
I saw a rat in The Woman In White, and a particularly docile pony in a panto once. I'm sure I've seen something more exotic but my memory is letting me down.
There was an unscheduled rat at the Adelphi, but it wasn't quite on stage.
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Post by reecegeorge on Nov 29, 2019 21:46:10 GMT
I have seen dogs in Curious Incident, but I think that's all. It's not often done in theatre. I did once see a circus with tigers, lions and camels which was... interesting. I also have performed on stage with panto ponies. They stink!
During one of the shows, I was waiting in the wings to go on and one of the horses must have eaten something or had IBS because it just expelled its bowels all over the floor. Thankfully it was behind a cloth but it sounded like Niagara. Poor thing.
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Post by david on Nov 29, 2019 21:46:58 GMT
Rat - Woman in White
Snake - Ant and Cleo
Rabbits / Geese - The Ferryman
Cat - Lt. of Inishmore
Dog - Downstate , The Hunt. Didn’t Imelda Staunton bring her own dog on stage in Gypsy?
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Post by catcat100 on Nov 29, 2019 21:59:57 GMT
Cat - Lieutenant of inishmore Duck - The Wild Duck Pigeons - Two Pigeons (ROH) Dog - Downstate Cant remember if the budgie in Julie (National) was real or not (obvs swapped at last minute)
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Post by lou105 on Nov 29, 2019 22:02:03 GMT
Several of the above. Plus the random fox in Unreachable at the Royal Court..
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Post by dippy on Nov 29, 2019 22:09:19 GMT
I saw the owl in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child but since it only lasted the one show I don't think that was a successful animal on stage. It was beautiful though and a little entertaining seeing them attempting to get it to do what they wanted but what they do instead now is absolutely fine.
Other than that I can only think of having seen dogs and rats (there's one in Curious isn't there? At least until the cage gets covered up and then it's obviously not there any more as it gets battered around) on stage.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Nov 29, 2019 22:13:30 GMT
The Goats at the Royal Court a few years ago deserve a mention.
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Post by peggysue on Nov 29, 2019 22:18:18 GMT
Mouse - Flowers for Algernon
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Post by justfran on Nov 29, 2019 22:47:22 GMT
I think there was a rat(s) in 1984 at the Playhouse?
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Post by crabtree on Nov 29, 2019 23:13:12 GMT
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Giselle features a horse I believe, and the other ballet La fille mal Gardee always has a pony. Yep and the usually well behaved pigeons in the Two Pigeons. We did Lieutenant of Inishmore and had a very good cat, that responded exactly as it was meant to do. And then there's Sandy in annie, and Crab the dog in Two gents. sensation smith staging Ben hUr at drury Lane in Victorian times had many many horses charging usually sideways on travellators, but eventually he got them running towards the audience. Did Dorothy Brock in 42nd street ever have a dog?
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Post by crabtree on Nov 29, 2019 23:15:22 GMT
The Ellen Kent operas usually have a novelty such as a huge eagle in Rigoletto and a horse in Carmen.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Nov 30, 2019 3:32:51 GMT
King Lear with Sheep.
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Post by ukpuppetboy on Nov 30, 2019 8:15:42 GMT
I saw the owl in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child but since it only lasted the one show I don't think that was a successful animal on stage. It was beautiful though and a little entertaining seeing them attempting to get it to do what they wanted but what they do instead now is absolutely fine. This is fascinating dippy - I want to know all the owl gossip! Ironically it sounds like completely the opposite story to the Hedwig in the original movies who was so well behaved they hardly ever used the beautiful animatronic made by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop for Philosopher’s Stone. Perhaps they should have dusted him off and put a fresh set of batteries in for Cursed Child. I’m sure he’s just up the road in Leavesden.
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