Props

Crabs!

Makes a clickety-clack sound when shaken.

Moulding for Governer General awards

Wood replicas made of foam!

I've long desired to build a sea knot framed display.

My props organizational system

Know at a quick glance that everything is there.

The head is full of weights to help it flip-flop when the actor holds it by the neck.

Fan

Painting gold on so the fan matches the costume

Blood

This is made of stage blood, but it didn't dry, so we later used paint

New cover

Some props tell you about their characters. This one is played as very insecure.

Snow being kept cool over the hour that actors go onstage.

Later made snow cones on a day the actors were tired

Snow!

My secret to making fluffy and real-looking snow, later to go on the actors' hats and coats as they enter from the 'cold'.

Preset 1

Stage left preset wagon

Preset 2

Stage right preset wagon

Preset 3

Desk area with huge radio

Preset 4

Mousetrap hidden underneath.

Presets

Sometimes doing props means running the shows backstage, and making sure everything is in position. These are for 'Mousetrap.'

Fireplace

Old decorations for a beautiful hardwood fireplace

Sign

The sign a character gets chastised for misspelling. Should read 'Monkswell.'

Armchair

Newspaper holder, old fire paraphenelia, correctly positioned chair

E-pipe

This little guy is a favourite of mine. Fills up the entire stage with its actor deep in smokey thought.

E-pipe 2

Sanding the inside the pipe so that the battery hopefully fits.

Help

The folks at this store were helpful neighbors with all my e-pipe woes

Canvas prep

The most important prop of the 10-prop play is a blank white canvas painting. Had help from the paint department on how to build it. Designer was disappointed in the result, as is sometimes the case.

Late!

The second most important prop is a blue whiteboard marker of the correct thickness. No one expected it to take a week to ship that thing. Nearby stores have closed and/or don't stock what they used to~

Saugbläser Heinzelmann

Believe it or not, this vacuum cleaner had the tubes swapped, and now expels air, able to be doing something like in the next pic.

Reference Photo

The Heinzelmann invention from 'Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts' is one of Germany's favourite Loriot's sketches. More info here at around 19:40.

Ontop is the sketch's famous Kosaken-zipfel

Loriot

Man, that show Loriot had a lot of fun and memorable props. Here they are in a Loriot-themed cake that me and my coworker made for an end-of-season party.

Ente

Sketch of two possessive men sharing a bathtub and duck

Telefon

Office romance scene wrapped in telephone cords

Mops

The pug, a recurring creature throughout

Food 1

Every night, new Sauerkraut and Knödeln are prepared

Food 2

Tapas made from the famous local Maultaschen

Food 3

Preset for Biedermann (The Arsonist). Half real, half fake.

Handwritten letter

Coffee stained paper

Box stack

String later threaded through held the boxes together

Aged cards

A bit of watered down metallic gold to age the cards

Print job

Dentist office in Klein Horrorladen, (Little Shop of Horrors).

Experiment

Experimenting with ice spray that later makes it to the program cover

Program

Innit cool? That transparent window now sits in our pipeworks room

Potatoes

Nylon stockings, paint, sand

Drumsticks

Foam, paint, dye, glaze

Silhouette

Cardboard, lights, scrim

Chateauneuf du Pape

Crab

Foam, wood, paints

Grateful dead patch

Acrylic, felt

Loudspeaker

Paper maché

Terms of Union

Fabric, paint, glue,

Hisorical pages!

Mouldy bread

Paint, photo references

Darned mits

Using a stone for structure

The Monitor

Library archives

Props Paper-work

Some show lists get huge! It's important to have organized paperwork, especially if there's a good chance the show will remount a later year. It's also important to leave maintenance instructions for when your job finishes and the Stage Management team takes over.

Axe props list 2019 V6.doc

Birds Maintenance Instructions.docx

Milk

White paint, water, and shampoo gives a frothy consistency

Gooey syrup

Glue gun, cans of corn

Upholstery

We preferred the original vinyl (grey) for Jewel which is set in 1983 rural Alberta

Forgetmenot

Floral tape, felt

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