TY - GEN
T1 - Stage Effects and Other Theatre Machinery
AU - Allen, Richard
N1 - Allen, R., 'Stage Effects and Other Theatre Machinery', Seminar: International Theatre Collection, Centre for Performance Research, October 2010
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - I entered the collection with an agenda: I wanted to locate the material it held on stage
machinery; trap doors, revolving stages, fly towers and winch systems, and - if I was lucky,
trick props and stage effects, items that have become known as ‘burlesque paraphernalia’ or
‘side degree specialties’. As well as the larger machines, I went looking for the bucking goat,
the exploding cigar and the collapsing chair...
AB - I entered the collection with an agenda: I wanted to locate the material it held on stage
machinery; trap doors, revolving stages, fly towers and winch systems, and - if I was lucky,
trick props and stage effects, items that have become known as ‘burlesque paraphernalia’ or
‘side degree specialties’. As well as the larger machines, I went looking for the bucking goat,
the exploding cigar and the collapsing chair...
M3 - Other contribution
PB - Prifysgol Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth University
ER -