Could Granville Island be the future location of a zombie apocalypse? Its all up to award-winning theatre artist Andy Thompson, whose new show, Zombie Syndrome: On Death Island, recruits audience members as special agents on an interactive, smartphone-enabled, thrill-seeking adventure at a secret location.
Last year, group after group of sold out audiences worked together to save the world and elude zombies. The exact starting point of this years all-new show remains undisclosed until the day before the appointed meeting, when you receive a phone call with instructions on where to meet (somewhere in central Vancouver). Once assembled, your group is taken on a very public and unique theatre adventure.
Today, John Casablancas Institute makeup artist Elizabeth McLeod gives Thompson a taste of his own flesh-eating medicine with step-by-step instructions on how disguise yourself, should the dead ever reanimate:
1) Create texture by brushing on liquid latex.
2) Add alternate texture with tissue applied over glue, then seal with latex on a foam wedge.
3) Seal tissue and glue with Ben Nye translucent powder.
4) Apply several different shades of red over the texture to create a motled road rash.
5 & 6) Add more reds, this time applied with a fine brush to create veining in wounds and skin.
7) Paint dark rings under the eyes.
8) Trowel thick blood into the wound textures.
Final: An overall dusting of dirt and a messy dollop of liquid blood completes the effect.
Create wounds and decaying skin texture with Alcones 3rd Degree, from any special effects makeup store. The silicone product comes in two parts that you mix together and apply to the skin in the form you want.
Ripped up tissue and a latex can also be used. To apply the tissue, use an adhesive such as Spirit Gum or Pros-Aide.
Then, with a foundation sponge, stipple a layer of latex all over the tissue. Once it has dried, with a new sponge, stipple another layer of latex.
Tickets for the Zombie Syndrome are available at TheVirtualStage.org. The show runs five times a day until Nov. 3.
Correction: The print article incorrectly identified the makeup school Elizabeth McLeod attended; the institute is John Casablancas. We apologize for the error.
