Properties - Performing Arts - Production Role Resources - LibGuides at Loreto College Ballarat

Loreto College Properties Resources

Props drive plots: Introduction to properties - Dramatics
How to ensure props fit the production.
Stage Props List - Theatre Props Table
How to use a Stage Props List to manage and track props for a production. A sample template can be downloaded from this site.
Theatre Props Tutorials - Instructables
How to make everything from a fake lit cigarette to fake feathers for costumes.
Eric Hart's Prop Agenda
A showcase and blog of everything to do with prop making and propping a production.
An Introduction to Technical Theatre by Sanders - Open Textbook Library
Module 8 of this open access textbook covers the different categories of props - set props, set dressings and hand props - and how they are used or managed during rehearsal and shows. Click on the orange PDF button and then select the modules from the index to download them.
The Properties Director's Handbook: Props for the Theatre
"... the process of doing stage properties, to tell how it is done, the tips to running a safe and happy shop and the steps to managing a prop “build” resulting in an on-time, on-budget, and as-designed show."

Les Miserables US 2017. The props of Les Miserables. Online video 16 December 2017. Duration: 2 mins.

Properties Master - Sample Job Description
This is a sample job description from a university theatre department which highlights the responsibilities and lists the many tasks of a Properties Master.

American Theatre Wing 2015. Working in the theatre: prop masters. Online video 24 April 2015. Duration: 20 mins.

American Theatre Wing 2019. Working in the theatre: specialty props. Online video May 31 2019. Duration: 24 mins.