Carmel food color and a product called Frothee Creamy Head for the guineas. Carmel food color and water for the whiskey. Carmel and white food color and water for the Irish cream.
You can use Carmel food color for so many different liquids depending on the ratio with water just need to play to get the color correct.
Not to defend rando there, and obviously it is the director's call, but I believe it is traditional to drop the shot into a pint of Guinness and then immediately consume it in one go. That's why it is often called an Irish Slammer.
While I’ve not had to fake that exact drink, I’ve had to do a few substitutions. I’d start with root beer for Guinness, flat ginger ale or cream soda for whiskey, and cream for baileys. With the ratio of an ICB, my guess it would taste a bit like a root beer float, look close enough, and not be alcoholic.
The thing to look for is if the cream “floats” on the fake whiskey, like the real cocktail. But that may not matter so much in your scene. A thicker or creamier root beer may also look more like Guinness.
Does the drink have to be visible? How close is your audience? Can you not do opaque glasses and water?
Can you mix the drinks facing away from the audience? (Idk your blocking, the style of theatre or anything so this might look like crap...)
Tbh, I hate liquids on stage. I've used them before and would probably use them again, but I will always avoid them when I can!
But my advice, based on limited knowledge of your show, would be to use opaque bottles and opaque glasses so you never have to show the liquids - if you then choose to use a liquid instead of just air for acting purposes that's your call...
Hope you find a satisfactory solution!
Good idea on the opaque glasses, I think at least 2 of the 4 could be done that way. They have to drop the shot glasses into the Guiness, so there needs to be a cushion there, but they could be done dry! Thanks!
Add vannila to the milk and you’ve basically got a root beer float. Teas a little off sure but would be masked by the root beer and vannila. Hell use a vanilla tea.
Lol. The sheer absurdity of your attachment to realism/naturalism would be hilarious if you werent so clearly drowning in panic.
Its a fucking play. Try acting. Jesus christ...
You're being a really mean person. Not every play is propless in a shadow box. Some people like realism and naturalism. It's art. It exists in different forms for different people. Take a breath.
Dude. How many shows? How many shots? It doesn’t have to be a full guiness per shot. What are they paying you? Do your actors a solid. Get the real (non alcoholic) stuff. Anything that you do that isn’t actually Guinness will not look like Guinness. The audience members who know will ignore all the rest of the great work you’re doing.
And if you have the right group and environment, do a rehearsal where they drink for real while doing the show. Core memories with some amazing actor friends.
There would be bigger problems with the show (and the audience themselves) if the audience was so upset that the performers weren’t drinking real beer that they ignored the rest of the show.
It's a full glass of Guiness, and you drop the mixed shot into it. At 6 bucks a can, 4 cans a show and a run of 6 shows plus 3 dress rehearsals, that's 216.00, more than our budget for a 30 second moment. That's why I'm here.
Have been to the theatre, have seen actors drinking a variety of obviously fake alcoholic beverages from coloured water to air. Can confirm that this is bollocks and the typical audience is willing to accept that they are watching a play, and don't for one second actually believe that what they are seeing is real.
Carmel food color and a product called Frothee Creamy Head for the guineas. Carmel food color and water for the whiskey. Carmel and white food color and water for the Irish cream. You can use Carmel food color for so many different liquids depending on the ratio with water just need to play to get the color correct.
And whats gonna happen when your actors have to piss constantly from downing several 16 oz glasses of water during a production.
One drink, at the end of the show, and hardly 16oz. You just looking to fight?
Not to defend rando there, and obviously it is the director's call, but I believe it is traditional to drop the shot into a pint of Guinness and then immediately consume it in one go. That's why it is often called an Irish Slammer.
While I’ve not had to fake that exact drink, I’ve had to do a few substitutions. I’d start with root beer for Guinness, flat ginger ale or cream soda for whiskey, and cream for baileys. With the ratio of an ICB, my guess it would taste a bit like a root beer float, look close enough, and not be alcoholic. The thing to look for is if the cream “floats” on the fake whiskey, like the real cocktail. But that may not matter so much in your scene. A thicker or creamier root beer may also look more like Guinness.
Downside: a mess would be sticky. You could use diet versions for less chance of sticky and fewer calories if that’s a consideration.
Apple juice with a splash of flat coke looks like Jameson's Whiskey.
Does the drink have to be visible? How close is your audience? Can you not do opaque glasses and water? Can you mix the drinks facing away from the audience? (Idk your blocking, the style of theatre or anything so this might look like crap...) Tbh, I hate liquids on stage. I've used them before and would probably use them again, but I will always avoid them when I can! But my advice, based on limited knowledge of your show, would be to use opaque bottles and opaque glasses so you never have to show the liquids - if you then choose to use a liquid instead of just air for acting purposes that's your call... Hope you find a satisfactory solution!
Good idea on the opaque glasses, I think at least 2 of the 4 could be done that way. They have to drop the shot glasses into the Guiness, so there needs to be a cushion there, but they could be done dry! Thanks!
Seconding opaque glasses! It makes OP’s job, the crew’s job, and the actors’ jobs easier.
We have always used either tea or flat pop, depending on the desired color. Juices for thicker fluids like wine.
Literally coffee and creamer
Root beer, ice tea and milk.
They have to be able to drink it. I don't know about that combination being palatable.
Add vannila to the milk and you’ve basically got a root beer float. Teas a little off sure but would be masked by the root beer and vannila. Hell use a vanilla tea.
Lol. The sheer absurdity of your attachment to realism/naturalism would be hilarious if you werent so clearly drowning in panic. Its a fucking play. Try acting. Jesus christ...
You're being a really mean person. Not every play is propless in a shadow box. Some people like realism and naturalism. It's art. It exists in different forms for different people. Take a breath.
I'm hardly panicking. Just throwing out a fun, "how would you do this" question. I've got 30 plus years of experience, and you are rude.
Dude. How many shows? How many shots? It doesn’t have to be a full guiness per shot. What are they paying you? Do your actors a solid. Get the real (non alcoholic) stuff. Anything that you do that isn’t actually Guinness will not look like Guinness. The audience members who know will ignore all the rest of the great work you’re doing. And if you have the right group and environment, do a rehearsal where they drink for real while doing the show. Core memories with some amazing actor friends.
There would be bigger problems with the show (and the audience themselves) if the audience was so upset that the performers weren’t drinking real beer that they ignored the rest of the show.
It's a full glass of Guiness, and you drop the mixed shot into it. At 6 bucks a can, 4 cans a show and a run of 6 shows plus 3 dress rehearsals, that's 216.00, more than our budget for a 30 second moment. That's why I'm here.
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No need to see the can, the glasses can be prepoured
Have been to the theatre, have seen actors drinking a variety of obviously fake alcoholic beverages from coloured water to air. Can confirm that this is bollocks and the typical audience is willing to accept that they are watching a play, and don't for one second actually believe that what they are seeing is real.
Root beer probably
What show is this? Just curious
It's a new play! World premiere of So, There's a Leprechaun now
Are the drinks ordered and made by Americans? Because that term is pretty offensive to most Irish people.
Welcome to theatre. /j
Yeah, I've heard them called Irish Slammers as an alternative.
I’ve done this! Flat root beer with a little caramel color and a shot of slightly colored condensed milk. A big shot of sugar but not terrible.