Props

Crabs!

Makes a clickety-clack sound when shaken.

Moulding for Governer General awards

Baloon cloud for Big Bang

Wood replicas made of foam!

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

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

Some props tell you about their character. The character for this prop is 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.

Preset

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.

Help

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

E-pipe

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

Canvas prep

The most important prop of the play, although built in time, wasn't to the designer's satisfaction.

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 don't have what they used to~

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

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

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.

That ontop is the sketch's famous Kosaken-zipfel

Sketch of two posessive men sharing a bathtub

Office romance wrapped in telephone cords

The pug, a recurring image throughout

Building a sea knot frame has long been a desire of mine

Seemanns-garn

This is another beautiful one, warm with song and Christmas cheer. We had about 5 hours to set up all the bottles and fill the walls with pictures and albums.

Food 1

Every night, Sauerkraut and Knödeln, eaten and prepared

Food 2

Tapas made from the famous local Maultaschen

Food 3

Preset for Biedermann ('The Arsonist')

Handwritten letter

Coffee stained paper

Box stack

String threaded through will hold the boxes together

Aged cards

A bit of watered down metallic gold paint

Print job

For the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors

Experiment

Experimenting with ice spray later makes it to the program cover

Program

Innit cool? That transparent window now sits in the waterworks room

Decorative 1

Ribbon and rings!

Decorative 2

Bunting, strategically placed hooks

Forgetmenot

Floral tape, felt

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.