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Discuss the following:

• demands of the play
• limitations of budget
• believability
• practicality.

Design and create props for the banquet scene with Banquo's ghost in Macbeth.

In preparing this assignment, consider productions that are currently being developed in the school or in community-based groups. Students could develop properties that may be used in such productions. In this manner the properties will be used as a working function of the show. The care and management of properties could also be examined in the context of a running show.

Consult the Construction, Carpentry Curriculum Guidelines.

Concepts:

• borrowing, transforming, and creating
• making and taking inventory
• handling donations: care, return, and acknowledgement
• meeting other demands of the play
• organizing: prop tables, template(s), storage
• maintaining and repairing props
• delivering and returning props to and from actors
• stating emphatically: "Don't play with the props!"
• taking pre- and post-production responsibility.

Prepare a plan for the acquisition and operation of props for one act of: The Diary of Anne Frank or The Miracle Worker.