I need ideas please!!! We are doing a play that requires a car that can seat 4 people. Any ideas on how to build one? I did see ideas about building around a golf cart.......help!! We are a bit limited for space too, but the car doesn't need to move.

Do you actually have to have the car?  Why not just put the seats on the stage.  The audience will get the idea that they are in the car.

Both Joe and Patrick bring up a point that may be a topic for an entirely new thread: Mainly the difference between contruction for the stage vs. construction for the cinema.

Both mediums rely on the audience's "willing suspension of disbelief" meaning that people come to the theater (movie or stage) with the idea KNOWING what they're about to see is NOT REAL, yet they agree to abide by the logic of the events presented to them.

Audiences attending live performances are far more generous in what they will accept as "real" whereas audiences attending film nearly DEMAND "reality" insofar as props, costumes and scenery are concerned.

I believe it's an unfortunate trend that too many community theaters (and professional theaters, for that matter) are trying too hard to be "real" when the script doesn't call for it.    And vice-versa, trying to mount a production where "reality" is beyond their technical or budgetary means. (Is there a communtiy theater out there capable of staging the "Miss Saigon" helicopter landing for example?)

We need to see more imagination, more frivolity, more frugality, and -- dare I say it? -- more THEATRICALITY. Soon that word will lose all meaning to generations raised on ultra-real movies and video-games.

Okay. Rant is over.

 What show?