Stage props may be created from real items, such as tables, cups, or lamps. Since they do not always need to perform their real function, however, they may also be made of other substances, like a "rock" made out of paper mache and painted to look real.
One quick way to make a puppet stage: Find a large refrigerator box, separate down the seam, cut off one side, and cut a large square window in the opposite side.
On the sides
Props
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Yes they did. They used a range of props from big props (ie. beds and cannons which were left on the stage) to smaller props (like daggers and swords).
Yes
You should keep the props and stage clean first. You then wax the stage as required.
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TRUE
Props in sixteenth-century productions were just like props of today. If they needed swords, they had swords. If they needed drinking glasses, they had drinking glasses. They had a skull for Hamlet, a handkerchief for Othello, and a ring for Viola. They did not go in for unnecessary props, props just to decorate the stage. Although Tree insisted on real rabbits to decorate the stage in Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare assuredly did not.
Stage properties
The set designer (or set manager, or set dresser) is responsible for verifying and maintaining the prop items. During production, they may be handled by an assistant, or by a designated "props manager", who coordinates with the set manager and the stage director to assure that the props are properly placed and handled.
An assistant stage manager is a person in the theatre whose job it is to maintain and supply props from backstage.