Another prelim for Shipwrecked, this one is for Bruno the Dog. One of the challenges of this play for the actors is, they play a huge range of characters so the more theatrical the character, the more dependent its realization is upon the performance. Though we could build an incredible dog suit or mask or whatever, that's not in the nature of the play, and it's not something that there's time to don or doff even in a quick change.
So, in this rough sketch you can see that Bruno is largely going to exist in the actor's performance, with his physicality only suggested by a bag-hat reminiscent of little pup ears and possible a tail rig (though that's on the table for being cut, since this performer has to drop in and out of Bruno and do other characters interspersed.
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