DANCING AT LUGHNASA PROP LIST

Preliminary 9/1/04

August, 1936. The home of the Mundy family, two miles outside the village of Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland.

Scenic Props, Furniture and Dressing

Outside Bench Scenery

Well Scenery

Chest Scenery

Wooden Table Scenery

4 kitchen chairs Stock

Kitchen bench Stock

Wooden Rocker Purchase

Sewing Basket Stock Purchase

Milk Stool Stock

Sewing Chest/Bench Scenery

Turf Basket See Picture

Stove Scenery Photo

Lid off top and throws turf into the fire.

I have an iron in there. Photo

Fishing with tongs. Photo

Cupboard Scenery or Purchase or Stock

Fireplace Scenery

Mantel piece with dressing

Oil Lamp See Picture … Stock

Bucket with Water

Wild Flowers Stock

2 vases

Change out for Act II

Plates in cupboard

See Steve regarding dressing

Kitchen utensils

 

Scripted Props

ACT I

2 Kites "Boy has been making two kites in the garden and pieces of wood, paper, cord, etc. are lyingon the ground close to the garden seat. One kite is almost complete.

Painted faces on the kites.

Reseach 1930s kites Purchase materials and then make.

Two sticks that Jack picks up and beats on the ground (maybe on the well like a drum?)

 

 

Skeins of Wool for making gloves gray

Wool for inside chest

Steel Knitting needles 3 sets

We will need a variety of gloves in various stages of completion. Actors need to work on

These in rehearsal.

Military cane for Jack.

Marconi radio. See Photo

Batteries 2 See Photo

Maggie makes mash for hens Feed store

In a metal hen bucket

Basket of turf Research

Ironing clothing see Photo

Lots of clothing See Jodi

Kitchen table ironing pad

Ironing board

Tiny cracked mirror on the wall By door DSL

Cross on wall above mirror

Ironing surplice Contact church, maybe chapel

Cigarettes unfiltered

A silver fish charm and a metal pinned to Rose's apron. "is it a fish?" Ask director.

Ashtray

Tea Kettle

Tea

 

Kate enters having been shopping with bags which contain

Small, wooden spinning top and whip.

Library book with colored pictures.

Annie M.P. Smithson novels for Agnes

The Marriage of Nurse Harding

Cod-liver oil

Quinine

Tea

Soap

Indian meal

Jelly

Cornflower

Salt

Tapioca

Suger

Pack of WILD WOODBINE cigarettes … 10 pack

Battery See photo

Newspaper Donegal Enquirer

Candle

Matches

Apples

Butter

Margarine

Flour

 

Tools for baking bread

Ingredience for making Soda bread

Bowls

Spoons

Ironing pile

Includes Handkerchief

Gerry walking stick

Agnes enters carrying some roses. Picked outside.

Vase for the roses.

2 tomatoes

 

ACT II

Ink bottle

Pen

Paper

2 Kites Different Finished with art work Crude, cruel, grinning faces, primitively drawn, garishly painted.

2 zinc water buckets w/ water

Fills kettle on stove

Saucepan on stove black iron pan

Kate enters with an armful of clothing from the clothes line

Damp cloth to wipe down table.

Wash basin for dishes (Kristin, where do we want this to be? Add a table? Or would the wash basin be placed on the dinning table?)

2 small pails of bilberries See photos

Biberries look like blue berries

Red poppy

Two breads in baskets with linen cloth on top

Basket with eggs 3

Butter plate with top

Knives

Parsley

Basil

Milk tin/jug

Cups and plates

Cupboard Dressing

Table cloths, 2

Dead rooster with feet. Feathers are ruffled and blood stained

Hair comb

Pair of shoes (?)