Properties
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properties, props
Objects on the stage of a theater related to a performance, including furniture and decorative elements.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Properties
fake, specially created objects (sculpture, furniture, tableware, decorations, weapons, and such) used in theatrical productions instead of real things. Properties should be cheap and sturdy and have an exaggerated, simplified outward form. (The reproduction of details not visible to the audience is usually omitted in the production of properties.) The theatrical workman who creates properties is called a property man.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.