[SML] Fake "Hare" for Stoppard's Arcadia

[Richard]

Miss Saigon had better have a helicopter and Phantom had better have chandelier, or the audience will feel cheated, as some props are needed for marketing the show.
/s/ Richard

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> On Nov 2, 2015, at 13:32, Dougherty, Jim via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> Requisite counter point to Pat and John, with whom I actually agree
> completely:
> 
> As a prop person I'll say that there are some shows that are practically
> built around specific props, which are almost unavoidable; how many times
> have people asked for the razor from _Sweeney Todd_, or the rear end of a
> deer for _A Lie of the Mind_?  Let¹s say you dodge the hare in _Arcadia_,
> there¹s still the tortoise, all the garden and fractal books, etc.  That
> being said I appreciate playwrights who ask for something nigh on
> impossible but leave enough room in their script for flexibility in
> creating the prop, for acting to help out or to carry the load entirely.
> 
> - Jim Dougherty
> ATD, Middlebury College Theatre Dept.
> 
> 
> 
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