A Week in Props

From Mollie, Props Intern

This week was full of lots of exciting things going on at the Rep. On Wednesday we opened The Seafarer by Connor McPherson. The first half of the week was spent putting the finishing touches on the set and finishing up the props. Opening night was amazing. The show is one of the best that I have seen in a long time. All of the actors give such strong performances that there were many times watching the play that I forgot there were 800 other people in the theatre with me. I am so proud to be apart of the show and seeing it makes me realize how much I love working on theatre.

I also started working on another intern project this week. Since we got a lot of armchairs for the director to choose from we ended up with a few that we did not have space for in storage. Instead of giving one of them back to the Salvation Army where we got it I was able to completely reupholster it. On the other chair that I worked on I was only able to go as far as putting muslin on it but with this one I was able to completely re-do it. As an added bonus I was also going to be able to take the chair when I was done because there was no room. Therefore I got to pick the colors and make a few design choices when it came to the colors. I also got to practice a lot of skills that I have been learning about upholstery. There were yards of cording to make and I had to make a new cushion when it was discovered the old one was made out of down feathers. The only problem that I ran into was that I did not have enough of the blue velour I was using to do the back and the cushion. However, I did have plenty of the accent green color that I had been using so the back of the chair is green and the cushion is green with blue cording. It actually turned out pretty well and I am excited to see it in my apartment. Well I really need to go finish sewing the cushion and clean up before going home so bye for now.