Recent content by annapotamus

Thanks all for the wealth of information. I have ordered some of the books you mentioned. I've also been on a backstage tour of the National Theatre here in London which wasn't that useful - but the guide told me about Up Late tours of the sound and lighting kits which aren't advertised on the...

Hm, it looks like the consensus is on a big team. That’s more work for me but it’s what I’d expected. The Fox backstage stuff is fantastically useful, thank you.Theatre in Russia was originally a court luxury, and many of the serfs set to the job were indeed sailors, selected for the very...

This is quite a large professional theatre in central Leningrad so I'm assuming a team would be required (though it would make it simpler for me if not; no side characters to create without them slowing the story down!). Tanya doesn't have any theatre experience when she's hired, she's just good...

I'm in London, UK. I'd certainly love to look inside a theatre, given a chance. There are some backstage tours available here, and I'll go on one, but I don't suppose the guides will be lighting experts. I'll be asking them though...

Hi all. Thanks for your helpful responses.I’m OK for historical setting as I have a degree in Soviet Studies. There are theatrical memoirs and academic texts about the time, I just can’t find anything that says much about lighting.Tech would be comparable to the West. The USSR didn’t enter...

Hi. I'm a children's writer working on a YA novel set in Leningrad in 1938. One of the characters works on lighting in a large theatre for a while, and I'm trying to research how it would be.I know a lot about the period, and I'm reading up about theatre of the time, but it's hard to come by...