Last month a new ‘backstage heritage project’ was launched aiming to record memories and physical artefacts used in the theatre production process, the organisers are looking for people to contact them with memories and are interested in compiling a database of technical equipment in store which may be available for public viewing.
The Backstage Heritage collection writes:
‘This website is brought to you by a group of passionate theatre technical folk who have realised that much of their heritage is being discarded and replaced with new technologies.
We’ve started gathering together other interested parties, and are now cataloguing and logging equipment which is still in existence, with a view to finding ways to display it and enable folk to visit it and reflect on where current technologies first emerged, and how they have evolved (or been forgotten) over time. We’d love you to help us on our endeavours’
Find out more about the project at Backstage Heritage
