Locks redux

For our production of THE BACCHAE at UM in 2011, like a crazy lady with nothing else important to do, like teach a 90-strong section of Introduction to Theatre, and whipped into a creative frenzy by the director's (ever-awesome Tammy Killian) sick and twisted production concept of cyber-goth- I decided to outfit all the maenads with home-made felted wool locks. In technicolor. 

You may be asking- why make them? Can't you buy those or aren't there easier ways to do this?

Yes, but in addition to the 90 Intro students, I had about 20 Applied Theatre students I needed to keep busy. They were willing but beginners, and to harness their amazing work ethic and maximize my teaching time- I decided to create a wool lock sweat shop (actually it was kind of steamy once I started dyeing).

This is how we made them:

The next step is to start putting these into easy to use horsehair pieces so they could be styled into the actor's own hair easily by a student hair stylist. See an example below:

Now the fun part: STYLING! A test on me with the heavy stock piece and a very good sport actor, the ever awesome Mia Shirley, with a much lighter piece, as well as also ever fantastic hair and make-up crew member Alix Black in a trial for a particularly active character.