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KEY FURNITURE, PROPS, SOUND EFFECTS ETC.

Don't Lose Heart - Instrumental Playout
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ACT ONE

SCENE 1

Furniture:         

Street games:  

                         

Jenny:             

Nora:               

Child thief:  

Hilda:               

Dot:                  

Stallholder:      

Sound effect:  

 

SCENE 2

Furniture:         

Fanny:            

 

SCENE 3

Furniture:         

Lady Canning: 

 

SCENE 4

Work people:            

 

Nurses:           

 

Meg:               

Marge:            

Delivery:  

 

SCENE 5

Sally:             

Florence:         

 

SCENE 6

Furniture:         

1st Soldier:      

Surgeon:        

2nd Soldier:     

Sound effects:

 

SCENE 7

Paper seller:       

 

SCENE 8

Furniture:       

Mary Stanley:  

Marge:             

All Nurses:       

Daisy:            

 

SCENE 9

Well-wishers:  

Projection:

 

ACT TWO

SCENE 1

Gentleman:     

 

SCENE 2

Mr Ward:         

Dr Lawson:    

Dr Smith:         

John:               

 

SCENE 3

Furniture:        

Mr Ward:          

John:              

 

Soldiers:        

 

SCENE 4

Nurses:         

 

SCENE 5

Furniture:        

Nurses:           

Florence:        

Nurses:            

Nurses:            

Sound effects: 

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SCENE 6

Nurses:           

 

SCENE 7

Furniture:        

Props:             

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Emma:           

Nurses:           

Florence:         

 

SCENE 8

Furniture:         

Florence:        

1st Soldier:     

 

SCENE 9

Furniture:        

Dr Smith:         

 

SCENE 10

Furniture:        

Meg:                

Nurses:

 

SCENE 11

Furniture:         

Mabel:              

Nurses:            

 

SCENE 13

Furniture:        

                              

Street games:  

 

Paper seller:       

Crowd:  

Sound effects:

Projection:

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Stalls/baskets with goods for sale – fruit, vegetables, bric à brac, flowers, lace, 'live' chickens

For example – wooden hoop with stick, walking on stilts, juggling, skipping rope, throwing rope rings around a stake, cup and ball, catching ball, hopscotch, leap frog

Wooden/wicker shopping basket

Apple

‘Live’ (humorous) chicken - homemade or 'Folkmanis' chicken hand puppet 

Lace handkerchief, wooden/wicker basket

Small posy of flowers to sell, wooden/wicker basket

Rag used as a 'cloak'

Distressing squawks of a chicken

 

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Wooden park bench

Handkerchief

 

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Wooden table(s) and chairs

Gavel, letter

 

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Saws, hammers, wooden ladders, tape measure, paint brushes and pots of paint, large sieves, long lengths of pipes, long planks of wood

Metal buckets, mops, scrubbing brushes, pile of filthy rags and filthy linen, sheets, 'cracked' jugs

Large ‘bone’ in a cloth bag

Metal bucket

Delivery note, 'heavy' cardboard boxes of various sizes

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Handful of letters

Letter

 

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Trestle table

Empty brandy bottle

Sword

Leather belt

War, musket, rifle, cannon. Howling wind. Heavy rain. Claps of thunder

 

 

Pile of newspapers to sell

 

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Chairs

Handful of letters to read bits aloud

Paper copy of rules

Uniforms to wear and paper copies of the ‘rules’. Luggage

Bag containing a bottle of gin

 

 

Flags, banners

Optional end of act nurses' details during song, 'We're On Our Way At Last'. GO HERE

Raised bed for Florence

Large tin of soup, wooden spoon

Pots, brooms, aprons

Spoon and tin of food (feeding men)

Any period medical props (e.g.stethoscope) used in make-shift hospital ward

Wooden/wicker picnic basket, telescope, wooden folding picnic seat

 

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Large official looking folder, complaints form for Dr Smith, pen

Form

Folder full of forms, docket to sign, pen

Two pieces of paper

 

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Turkish copper, lit by firewood

Scraggy piece of meat, two bottles of port, folder, form, pencil

Bandage on arm, large rusty nail in pocket, meat covered in an old sock retrieved from Turkish copper, his meat, which ‘breaks’ into 5 portions of meat and 3 portions of bone, bucket of water

Some with wooden crutches. All bandaged

 

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Luggage

 

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Chair, Wooden/card board boxes of medical supplies

Luggage

Box of tin basins for eating/drinking

Cleaning materials, clothes, scrubbing brushes, metal buckets, mops, pile of old linen

Carry a body on a stretcher

Claps of thunder

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Bags of straw for bedding

 

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Wooden stool for Emma to stand on, table and chair

Cloth sacks on floor. Rat pulled along by thin string and/or a rat e.g. peers around the proscenium arch or over a box - homemade or 'Folkmanis' rat hand puppet

Pile of filthy shirts

Cleaning materials, scrubbing brushes, metal buckets, mops

Letter, pen, envelope, lights her Turkish cylindrical paper lantern with a ‘match’

 

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Camp beds with straw pillows, bed clothes

Portable lit Turkish cylindrical paper lantern

Letter in bag

 

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Chair and wooden desk

Writing paper, pencil

 

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Camp beds with straw pillows, bed clothes

For example – wooden hoop with stick, walking on stilts, juggling, skipping rope, throwing rope rings around a stake, cup and ball, catching ball, hopscotch, leap frog

Handful of news papers to sell

Banners and flags

Roar of crowd cheering in the distance

Optional end of act Florence Nightingale and/or Crimean War quotes. GO HERE

Optional black gauze picture frame. See 'DIRECTOR'S NOTES' at end of Act Two

Note: Gauze available from J C Joels, Whaleys, McDougalls etc.

Stalls/baskets with goods for sale - fruit, vegetables, flowers, lace, bric à brac stall selling Florence Nightingale souvenirs - two small figurines

                                     Page updated: 15 April 2024                             © Roger Holman Music

                                     Page updated: 3 March 2022                           © Roger Holman Music

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