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SETC Theatre Symposium Day 1

By Eric Hart | Published: April 4, 2009

You’ll notice I didn’t have a post yesterday. I flew down to Winston-Salem to attend the 2009 SETC Theatre Symposium. This year, the topic is props, which is very apropos for this blog. It was a long but fruitful day. I presented my paper. Bland Wade, the props director at North Carolina School of the [...]

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SETC Theatre Symposium

By Eric Hart | Published: March 27, 2009

Next Friday, I’m flying to North Carolina to take place in the SETC Theatre Symposium. This year’s theme is “The Prop’s the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered”; how can I not participate? I’m hoping to bring back all sorts of interesting and useful information for this blog. Also, since I’ll be busy getting ready for this, [...]

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Shakespeare’s Movables

By Eric Hart | Published: February 20, 2009

Over at the Popular Woodworking blog, Megan Fitzpatrick has an interesting post about joint stools in Shakespeare. I’ve been reading a bit of Shakespeare lately (everyone should have a hobby, no?), and in several of his plays, the term “joint stool” appears, often in the service of a taunt. That’s piqued my interest in “moveables,” [...]

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Learn How to Build Anything

By Eric Hart | Published: February 11, 2009

I came across this interesting website: 101 Free Open Course Classes to Learn How to Build ANYTHING What are open course classes? Basically, they are all the materials of a college class made freely available to anyone online: the syllabus, handouts, lecture notes, assignments, etc. If you were so inclined, you can use this to [...]

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    Eric Hart

    I am Eric Hart, former assistant props master at the Public Theater in New York City, and a longtime prop maker.

    This site is a way to share my work and the things I've learned over the years. It's also a way to connect with other prop makers, props masters, and artisans, as well as a collection of all things of interest to props people from around the internet.

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