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Prop or not?
Is a musical instrument a prop? Many prop masters like to say, “If you want it to look good, it’s a prop. If you want it to sound good, it’s the sound department.” We’re doing Capeman right now, which is a musical. The orchestra obviously brings their own instruments. Any instruments which are handled by [...]
Behind the Scenes: The Property Room
Originally printed in the article “Behind the Scenes” from Chambers’s Journal, 1898 Another department of this world of illusion is the property-room, so called because there the various “properties” or “props” are constructed and stored for use. Props comprise all the portable articles required in a play. Guns and pistols — which too often fail [...]
Props in Henslowe’s Diary
I am knee-deep in Shakespeare right now, with this year’s Shakespeare in the Park featuring two Shakespeare in repertory. While A Winter’s Tale and Merchant of Venice prepare to open next week, I thought I’d share some more information about the props in Shakespeare’s time. I’ve written previously about what the props in Shakespeare’s time [...]
The Secret Regions of the Stage
From “The Secret Regions of the Stage”, by Olive Logan, originally published in 1874. The property-room of the theatre is a quaint and curious place. Here are kept the innumerable miscellaneous objects used on the stage, from the phial of poison which the apothecary selects from his beggarly array of empty boxes and sells to [...]
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