7/30/2019 Royal Order of Jesters Titles What is a Property Man

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/royal-order-of-jesters-titles-what-is-a-property-man 1/5

Royal Order of Jesters Titles: What Is a Property Man?

7/30/2019 Royal Order of Jesters Titles What is a Property Man

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/royal-order-of-jesters-titles-what-is-a-property-man 2/5

•The 13 members of the Original Cast of the Royal Order of 

Jesters all held titles derived in some way from theatre.

•Many of those titles have carried over to the modern day, and

some of them have origins a little more obscure than others.

7/30/2019 Royal Order of Jesters Titles What is a Property Man

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/royal-order-of-jesters-titles-what-is-a-property-man 3/5

•The term “royal tragedian,” for instance, is relatively easy to

parse. But where did the title of royal property man come from?

•In theatre, the property man, also called a property master or a

propman, holds responsibility over the gear, props, and other 

items necessary to produce a play.

7/30/2019 Royal Order of Jesters Titles What is a Property Man

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/royal-order-of-jesters-titles-what-is-a-property-man 4/5

•The property man’s purview includes every physical piece of the set

that the actors touch, with the exception of weapons and costumes,

which have their own overseers.

•The job involves a great deal of collaboration; before a production

even begins, the property man meets with the set decorator, director,script supervisor, and other members of the production staff to

determine prop needs.

7/30/2019 Royal Order of Jesters Titles What is a Property Man

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/royal-order-of-jesters-titles-what-is-a-property-man 5/5