you wear a bra to bed?
The only time I have ever worn a bra, it was stuffed with balloons, filled with those little silica gel crystals and saturated with water. I learned to swish when I walked, in character. It had to be taped to my chest, because I was so bouncy. The only other problem was that those balloons made so much noise that doing our lines was difficult.
Did you have the beard then?
No, it was a long time ago in a community theater "club". Two months just before this play, I had my beard at its longest ever and played a mock pirate. The beard was definitely part of that costume. I had shaved my beard off for a job (working around sick kids) and an opportunity came up to play an old grumpy, frumpy, fishwife, who none of the women could interpret well and I jumped on it.
Interestingly, about four months later I played a similar character, but I wore a mask glued to my face and everything. That character was a lot to do with an exaggerated, knobby chin and major wrinkles, anyway, plus a gravel grinding voice, which, again, none of the women could do. I had my beard then, too, but the second time the mask was glued on I really regretted keeping the beard!
BTW, I did the female gravelly voice by gargling saliva in falsetto as I spoke and it ripped my throat to shreds, but hey, it was "art" ya know.
