| Description | The file contains a variety of material relating to planning, including minutes and meeting notes, budgets and calculations, sketches, correspondence, notes and memos on subcontracts, budgets and costings, wiring diagrams, layouts, lighting bridges, high and low key lighting, cabling, scenery lift, floor and roof loading, two part safety curtains, stage equipment power, sound installation, access and cable ducts, smoke outlets, flying systems and spotlines, sourcing of stage equipment, paint frame, under-floor requirements, lighting and mechanical requirements, research carried out abroad, film projection and timelines. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd; Harry Rhodes Esq; the BBC; the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute; David & Boulva architects; Wally Russell Esq; the National Ballet Guild of Canada; and Peter Moro & Partners. The file includes a technical analysis of the Proscenium Theatre; rough sketches showing the loading and offloading of counterweights for flying and possibilities for motorized spotlines; a 'Summary of Stage Equipment, Lighting and Sound Installations'; a report 'Stage Equipment Proposals (BASIC); and a provisional specifications for the lighting control system. Original folder has been disposed of. '904/4A DEAD' [i.e. closed] was written on the spine. |