THE PORTER: SNM (2024)

“I pray you, remember the Porter.”

4×6 inches, wooden box with built-in phonebooths and engraved thistle logo

Top Lid – engraved Thistle symbol

Bottom Lid-Lobby Mirror, engraved with “moonlight becomes you” and lipstick kiss mark

Inside Lid- Phone Booths (“no more tears” painted behind curtains)

Potions:

  1. Large potion bottle with wave of paper boats to represent the porter’s continual making of boats/ the wall of boats; sealed with gold wax and thistle symbol.
  1. Porter and BW: rosemary for remembrance; sage for clarity; marigold for grief; vervain for trying to escape an evil influence; rose for passion and intensity; lilac for being manipulated; jasmine for sensuality and bewitching; lipstick for Porter 1:1, red string for being connected by an outside force; red ribbon saying “I pray you, remember the Porter;” sealed with gold wax and ballroom symbol.
  1. The Lobby: black salt for perversion of the natural order, and for being under a curse; thorns for being trapped in a cycle of violence; mugwort for seeing/walking between worlds; lavender for distrust; rue for regret; anise for fighting against an omnipotent force; comfrey for protection for someone on a journey/quest (Lady Macduff and Agnes); juniper for a safe space, hideout,respite (Porter’s office);  topped with small glass cloche containing telephone, ring and letter, on top of burgundy fabric representing the Porter’s jacket.
  1. The forest maze: Black ink for the darkness of the forest; statice flowers and ferns painted gold to represent the lighting in the maze; gold ring adhered to inside of bottle with resin to represent Hecate’s 1:1 and being trapped in the quest for the ring; outside of the bottle engraved with “Find my ring” and “I know you know where it is;” sealed with gold wax and thistle stamp.
  1. Melancholy: heather for loneliness and solitude; skullcap for melancholy/sorrow and sharing emotion with the audience; bluebell for demonstrating truth without speaking, emotional honesty and connection; purple rose for sincerity; chrysanthemum for sadness, foreseeing doom; bleeding heart for heartbreak, lost or unrequited love; sealed with gold wax and crescent moon stamp.
  1. Hecate: locket with bloody heart inside to represent Hecate’s hold over the Porter and other residents of the hotel (also a reference to the prelude to her lipsync scene); Sealed with gold wax and key stamp.
  1. Glass bottle with resin “tears” (seen below).
  1. Glass cloche with salt pile and crossed forks representing the salt piles in the Lobby (seen below).

Miscellaneous Items:

  1. Resin Crystal containing microphone and quotes “One day he went away, and I thought I’d die” and “Is that all there is?”
  1. Black Feathers
  1. King Card
  1. Bell – representing the chime of the desk bell
  1. Miniature Brass Stag 
  1. Organza Sachet: contains mini antique lipstick tube, brass Porter ring, mini teacups, small brass coin stamped with “No more tears,” and a thistle
  1. Wood round box with brass P:  containing a stack of papers connected by red thread and topped with a brass key, representing both the Porter’s notes (the hand drawing, the address he gives to Agnes) and the board of articles on the office walls/ the Vanishing Boy clippings. Lined with burgundy fabric on the bottom again for Porter’s jacket (seen below).