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Props Hire Store
Information on our props and furniture.
Our Props Hire store is situated just across the courtyard from the Costume Hire store. It comprises three large warehouse rooms full of furniture and props ranging from beautiful period pieces to the weird and wonderful such as severed heads, stuffed animals, fake food and restraining chairs.
The majority of our stock has come from previous National Theatre productions. Much of it has been created by our highly skilled team of makers and is often not quite what it appears at first glance. Expert paint techniques and clever tricks of the trade can fool one into thinking that a tempting plate of chocolate éclairs is far more tasty it actually is!
Service
We offer a friendly and efficient service to a variety of customers including schools and universities, theatre and opera companies – both professional and amateur, film, television and video companies, marketing and publishing companies and events organisers.
You are welcome to visit and browse through the stock to get inspiration for your productions.
Cost
Our hire fees are very competitive and we offer educational discounts and a sliding scale for longer hires.
Chair
Edwardian pram
Fake food
Gramophone
Some of our popular hires include the restraining chair and chamber pot from The Madness of George III, the seagull from The Seagull and the barber's chair from Sweeney Todd.
We also stock a selection of swords and shields and a large array of small props – telephones, lanterns, typewriters etc.
Parking
We have customer parking bays and are situated only two minutes from the Oval tube station. Please see contact page for a map and more information on how to find us.
Swords
Rustic props
Chairs
Electrical Goods
Please note that electrical goods are hired as non-working props and swords are for non-combat hires only.