History/Acting (Les Miserables) Question?
My director for our school musical, Les Miserables, has given me an assignment, along with four other girls. In the barricades scene in the show, the four girls and I are supposed to be acting as nurses. We know that when someone gets shot, we need to take care of them. But our director is looking for a little more depth than that. For anyone who has been in Les Miserables and has had my job in the barricades scene, can you give me any advice on what we should do when someone playing a student gets wounded? Also, I am opening this question to those who know anything about what nurses would do in a battle such as the one in the show. The battle takes place in 1832 in France, so that might help. What would a nurse do for a wounded soldier/student?
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Watch an old western, they show plenty of examples of people pretending to be shot and falling down dead. If you can get away with it, see if you can use an airsoft gun. They sting but it'll help the dramatics greatly. If a nurse was there, they'd be holding a gun. Battlefield medicine at the time was an afterthought, something you did when the battle was over. If you want to try it, have the nurse dragging off the wounded because medicine during a battle at that time was basically unheard of.
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