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Technical theatre links

• Stage Crew Site - Includes hints and tips on making scenery and props.
• Columbia Encyclopedia - Historical overview of the characteristics of scenic design in all major periods of theatre history.
• Northern State University - Useful FAQ on the nature of set and costume design.

• ScenographyUK - Excellent initiative featuring set and costume designs from Trent Theatre Design graduates. Site includes several image galleries.
• State University of New York Geneseo - Very good three-part lecture notes by Melanie Blood on the set designer's tools and processes. Includes discussion on the historical conventions of theatre set design.
• State University of New York Geneseo - Useful multi-part lecture notes on various theatre spaces used throughout the history of theatre, including the proscenium arch, thrust and arena stages.
• Theatre direction; Theatre technique; List of theatre directors (Wikipedia)
• Stagecraft (Wikipedia); Lighting (Wikipedia); Stage lighting (Wikipedia)
• Stage management (Wikipedia)
• The Meyerhold revolution - website about this
• The Actor - basic explanation of Meyerhold's acting method (Vsevolod Meyerhold was a Russian theatrical producer, director and actor whose whose provocative experiments in unconventional theatre made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre cf. Stanislavsky)