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Set and props

  • Props

    Props (Overview)

    Props made in the National's Props Department range from a specially adapted copy of yesterday's Evening Standard to gruesome severed heads.

  • Scenic Art

    Painting large canvases

    The scenic artists in the Paintframe can turn sheets of plastic into realistic-looking brick walls, or bare wood into elegant marble.

  • Scenic construction

    Scenic construction skills

    The carpenters, metalworkers, plastics experts and draughtspersons in the Scenic Construction workshops make sets from simple elements for a small-scale Cottesloe show to towering sets for the Olivier or Lyttelton.