Props: Inventory

Spent an hour down in the musty Walterdale props room with John Younie, scrounging items for the play. It looks like we've already got about half of what we need there:

• stools
• a throne
• a staff
• some spears
• a knife
• a bow (sans string)
• a couple of lanterns
• chains and manacles (for Kent's stocks)
• keys
• a bucket and brush (for a Servant)
• cushions and rugs

There's also a lovely folding gurney, built for a production of Cyrano de Bergerac, which we could use to bring in either Goneril or Regan's corpse in the final scene. John's going to look into building a second one to match it. We may even be able to convert one into a bed for Lear's "recognition" scene (although if we have to bring him onstage in a wheelchair, we could do that instead).

We didn't find a map, so we'll have to make it from scratch. But that's probably just as well; with props of great thematic significance, you want to be able to make sure it looks exactly right.