Treasure Hunt
The past two weeks I and my crew have spent our time treasure hunting. In particular we’ve been searching for a late 70s early 80s television set that works. We’ve been to the prop room at Regina Little Theatre and Globe Theatre as well as scrounging through second hand shops and used equipment shops. I didn’t expect it to be easy, I mean what does one usually do with an old TV? Back in the day it would have been trashed. What fun taking a sledge hammer to an old TV set. (Don’t do this now, it’s very dangerous). Better to recycle. Anyway, my point is when I lived in London, we had CosProp, a large storage of antique props and costumes that the theatre or the film industry could rely on to rent items for a production. Here not so much. I suppose it might not be a money-making venture given the now rarely used sound stage and the few theatre companies in Saskatchewan. But I can dream can’t I as I trudge through the slushy, grainy, dirty snow in my search for my holy grail, a vintage TV set . . . with a coaxial connector. If anyone out there has got one let me know. Thanks.
