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Author’s Note: My recommendation for how to use this guide is to think of an item you’d like to find, peruse the middle column of the chart below to see if it obviously falls into a single category, and then search that location in the prop shop. If you don’t have luck there, use the ‘find’ tool to search for the name of the item in the third column. Otherwise, poke around the prop shop as much as you can. You may have to borrow, buy, or fabricate this prop.
Author's Note #2: ALL OF THIS IS OUTDATED AS OF AUGUST 2019. rip haha
Other important notes:
There are empty boxes stored on the cow. Use these to collect and organize props as you prepare for a show, and to transport props to and from the prop shop.
This storage space is shared with another group. Do not leave it a mess, because they need to access their stuff too.
MTG is noted in gray below. All of these items are fair game!
MIT Mystery Hunt is marked in purple. Please do not use these items, do not put MTG items on these shelves, and keep the path to this shelf clear whenever you are not actively working in the prop shop.
MIT SCA (mitgaard) is marked in red. However, this group was disbanded in 2012. Their items do not need to remain accessible.
Please strike properly! You should have plenty of time during strike to clean and put away everything while other tech crews finish up. If you don’t finish strike the night of put-in, please come back the next day to finish!
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Once you have brought all of the props back to Walker from the theater space, start by putting back all items that were borrowed from the prop shop and are still in good condition to where you originally found them.
Bring over the garbage bin from the set shop. You should probably throw out or post to reuse at least 25% of the props for a given show. Any item that does not meet the criteria below should not be kept.
Is this item in good condition? If not, is it easily fixable?
Is this item composed of any perishable materials, or materials that will discolor/degrade/otherwise become of poor condition over time?
Is this item useful? Can you see it being used for a different show within the next two years?
Is this item very valuable? Will procuring another of it if this show were to be put on again in 4 or more years be very expensive?
Is it easily replaceable/findable/borrowable and therefore not worth keeping?
Is this item of nice quality?
Any item that has touched an actor’s mouth should be cleaned before being returned to the prop shop.
If you cannot find a new home for a prop that you bought for this show but would like to keep it, feel free to start a new milk crate with that type of item in it. There are more milk crates in the set shop if there are no more in the prop shop (ask your TD to show you where).
Once you have sorted through your props, make sure the ‘current show’ boxes are empty and clean.
Double check that the path to the MIT Mystery Hunt shelf is clear.
Make sure that the prop shop is neat, orderly, and organized.
Celebrate! You just finished a show! Yay!