Strawn / Schlenker The Properties Director's Toolkit

Managing a Prop Shop for Theatre
2. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-38042-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

The Properties Director’s Toolkit is a concise guide to managing a prop shop and show build. Sandra Strawn and Lisa Schlenker skilfully explain and provide templates for organizing and managing a prop shop, from pre-production organization to production processes, budgeting and collaborations with other production areas. The Toolkit also explores how to plan, organize and maintain a prop shop for safe and efficient production work. This thoroughly revised second edition includes two additional chapters on the role of the Props Director and co-productions, along with expanding information in each chapter, including artisan responsibilities, union information, digital collaboration, prop shop organization and construction, and projections.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strawn, Sandra

Schlenker, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

- Sense and Sensibility

- Job Titles and Duties

2.5 Working in Film – Melissa Woods

- What is a prop?

- Pre-Production and Planning

- Getting Organized

5.5 Working in Regional Theatre – Mark Walston

- Budgeting

- The Build Process

7.5 Working with Scenic Designers – Vicki Smith

- Rehearsal and Production Process

8.5 Working with Stage Management – Daniel J. Hanson

- The Production/Tech Process

- Co-Productions and Rentals

10.5 Working in Children’s Theatre – Elizabeth Friedrich

- Having a Career in Props

11.5 Working Freelance – Deb Morgan

- The Prop Shop

Appendix

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra J. Strawn has enjoyed over four decades of theatre prop and design experience highlighted by six seasons at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and five seasons at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Leading the properties production/design curriculum and designing for the Mainstage theatre at UW-Milwaukee for the past twenty-seven seasons, Sandra recently retired professor emeritus.

Lisa Schlenker has been the properties director for Skylight Music Theatre for the past twenty-seven years. Graduating with an MFA in Theatre Technology from UW-Madison (1988) her prolific scenic design and prop career is highlighted by work with Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Northern Sky Theatre, the Florentine Opera, and Milwaukee Opera Theatre.