Below we have listed links to other web sites which we have found useful or have come across in subject areas: -

Costume Links    Back Stage Links    Lighting & Sound Links   Local Towns     

News Papers and Council links     Pantomime Links    

Scripts and Bookshop Sites    Theatre Links

Web Script Sites    Other Sites

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Costumes Links

Admiral Costumes - Quality Theatrical Costumes for Hire. They can provide full or part sets as required, catering for large and small productions.

Carousel Costumes

- Dress Circle Costumiers is based in Brentwood, Essex and is managed by Jan Elliot, a "resting" Teacher, and Rachel Hutchinson who is a "retired" Wardrobe Mistress having spent 14 years touring with professional companies. The company owns over 3000 fantastic costumes ranging from Medieval splendour to Regency elegance and from Victorian grace to 1960's cheekiness! Since opening its doors in February 1999 Dress Circle has built up a clientele of local and national Dramatic and Operatic Societies providing costumes for such wide ranging shows such as , Mikado, Oklahoma! The Boyfriend, Lust, Romeo & Juliet, Gaslight and Pirates of Penzance to name but a few. We offer a friendly, enthusiastic and professional service.

Ents Web - A list of costume companies from around the world.

Equipment/Costume Hire - Web directory where you can find anything or anyone for your production.

Homburgs

Showbiz! - Looking for wigs. Showbiz has the right wigs for your show.

Surrey County Arts Wardrobe - Surrey County Wardrobe is an Aladdin's cave of wonderful costumes, available for hire to schools, amateur dramatic companies, youth theatres and private individuals.

The Haslemere Wardrobe - We are the leading costumiers in the South of England. We stock thousands of costumes for an enormous variety of shows.

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Back Stage Links

Backcloths and Show Props - A range of backcloths to enhance your production. All our hire costs are so competitive that we can always offer something for your budget whether it be one backcloth or a variety of cloths. We can also supply small flats or props to compliment many of our backcloths so if you cannot see exactly what you require it is worth an e-mail info@backcloths.com request to ask first!

Back Stage Shop - Inside you will find a wide range of products from leading manufacturers covering all types of Stage Lighting Lighting Control, desks, Dimmers, Sound is well represented with amplifiers, speakers, microphones, radio mics together with all of their cables and accessories. Performers are not forgotten with a vast range of Theatre Make Up, Greasepaint, from such manufactures as Kryolan and Leichner, together with a selection of make Up special effects, theatrical blood, latex and much much more.

Back Stage Supplies - Purchase any backstage item needed for a performance.

BBC Safety

Prosceneium - Over 70 sets available for hire.

Real Scenery

Stage Services

Stage Sets - Stage sets for the best price. Over 250 complete sets available from stock.

Stage Supplier (Flint) - Established in 1981 to provide the theatre industry with a single source for specialist theatre hardware and paints, Flints cater for Stage Managers, Production Managers, Workshop Managers, Scenic Artists, Engineers, Carpenters, Painters and Prop makers.

Scenic Projects - Scenic Projects provides extensive scenic services for your types of theatre company. We design and build quality stage sets and have a number of complete sets for specific shows already available to hire.

- Part of the Stage electric's Group of companies supplying Theatre set-hire, lighting, sound, rigging and in fact everything to get your show up and running

Stage Safe - The aim of the STAGESAFE Safety Awareness Course is to provide basic health and safety awareness to people working in the live music and event
production industries.

Stagetec - Stagetec the complete design, supply, installation, maintenance and service company for all sound, lighting and technical equipment for the stage, theatre, television, education and entertainment markets. Whatever your technical requirements, Stagetec has the answer.

- The Border Studio. 40 years in supplying Scenery & Backdrops to Theatres throughout the UK and Ireland.

The Chriska Stage Supplies - The Chriska Stage School was established in 1976, and the School's Principals worked for several years in professional theatre before commencing teaching in their dance & drama studios situated in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Over the years they have built up a supply of costumes and stage sets which are now for hire

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Lighting and Sound Links

10 out of 10 Lighting Hire - Lighting & Sound - Design - Hire - Installation - Sales For the Theatre, Live Music, Entertainment, Conference, Education, Trade Show & Exhibition Industries

AC Lighting - A.C. Lighting is acknowledged as one of the largest distributors of professional lighting and associated equipment to the entertainment industry. Operating from modern facilities located in High Wycombe and Leeds the Company supplies products and services to dealers, distributors and professional users in over 90 countries around the world.

Alvin Products - Suppliers of Key Clamp, Tubing, Armco Barrier Systems and Freestand Roof Edge protection Systems. Specialists in Health and Safety Equipment, Fall Arrest Systems,  Freestand and Buffer Barriers. Splice Locks, Site Safes from Alvin Products

Apollo Gobo's - Apollo is the world's largest producer of custom gobos. Today, Apollo Design is working out of a 30,000 square foot manufacturing and office facility. In addition to the best custom and standard gobos, Apollo now proudly offers Apollo Gel, Apollo Foil, Gaffer Tape, ThinLine(tm) Donuts, and Roto-Q gobo rotators. A Distributor is White Light London, 20 8254 4800 ask for Peter Thread gold.

- We design, manufacture and install a wide variety of performance facilities, as well as special bespoke projects and providing 'supply only' equipment.

Association of lighting designers - The Association of Lighting Designers is the professional body representing lighting designers in all fields in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. A voluntarily run association, it exists to provide a resource and forum for discussion and development of artistic and creative aims amongst designers from the fields of Theatre, Television, Architecture, Education, Industrial and Corporate Presentation and Manufacturing.

 Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians - The ASP is a UK administered organisation for people working with stage pyrotechnics

AT Sound Hire - Specialists in the more difficult areas of sound. We carry on the shelf a great deal of special equipment ranging from:-Battery & Mobile PA Equipment to hard of hearing & speech recording systems. This helps us cover events as varied and as different as Sports Events & Carnivals to Multi Language & Multi Mic Conferences.

Complete Production Solutions Group

- Online catalogue & ordering of Gobo's

- Founded in 1975, ETC has established a reputation as the world leader in entertainment, leisure and architectural lighting equipment.

Outstanding service and customer support have been key to ETC's success. Therefore after 25 years of experience in the Lighting business, ETC employs 500 people all around the world. With its solid international network of distributors, ETC is a truly global company.

ETC not only maintains in-house Technical and Customer Service staff, but
also an extensive network of factory-trained, Authorized Service Centers
(ASCs) that allow us to provide consistently excellent service.

Gearsales - Gearsales.com auction a wide range of Lighting, Sound, AV and Rigging Equipment Gearsales.com is the place to buy and sell professional production equipment in the UK

Glow Shop (U.V lighting) - Glow Shop Limited is a specialist company dedicated to sales of the widest possible ranges of UV light, UV reactive, glow-in-the-dark, electroluminescent and snap'n'glow products. The head office in Birmingham includes a retail outlet and the company markets its products worldwide via the full e-commerce on-line shop on this site. Everything we offer relates to UV lighting, UV reactive, glow-in-the-dark, electroluminescent and snap'n'glow products.

Gobo's To Go - Gobos to go, Inc. was formed in 1999 Today, as a member of the Beacon AB Gobo Group, Gobos to go provides its' clients with glass gobos of the highest quality in black & white, gray-scale, and full color. In addition to quality products and service, Gobos to go offers very attractive prices and the fastest turnaround times in the industry.

Gradav - Hire and sales of lighting, sound and stage management hardware. Among the consumable stocked are Rosco scenery paint, fire proofing spray, gobos, sash cord, filter, lamps and a variety of recording media.

HFM Pyrotechnics - Professional Pyrotechnics and firework sales. Purchase online at our website.

Intelligent Service - The one stop shop for repair and servicing, for professional sound and lighting equipment.

- Le Maitre have been manufacturing pyrotechnics and smoke machines for 25 years. The company consists of the pyrotechnic factory in Peterborough, the head office in Mitcham and Le Maitre Special Effects Inc in Canada.

Lighting Hire.com - Lighting Hire was formed in July 1998 from Essential Lighting to concentrate on the supply of lighting and associated equipment to the professional user on a dry hire basis. Our goal is to provide the ultimate quality assured lighting hire service. Our clients include companies and individuals working in Rock & Roll, Theatre, Conference, Exhibition & Hospitality.

MM Productions

Northern-Stage Services LTD - Used for Humpty Dumpty 2004 for Silk Flame Effect Lighting

Point Source - Is a well established lighting, sound and staging hire and sales company situated in Belmont near Sutton on the borders of South London and Surrey. We supply lighting, sound, staging and associated equipment for conferences,
corporate events, theatres, concerts exhibitions and schools. We can hire you just the equipment, or arrange all aspects of your production's technical needs, whatever its size.

Professional Lighting and Sound Association - PLASA is a diverse organization operating within the entertainment technology industry. Our website aims to be the prime source of information for entertainment, presentation and event technology professionals worldwide.

PLASA Show - Official site for all the information on the yearly exhibition held at Earls Court in September

Reflecting Light

Sonix Audio

Stage Electrics - Stage Electrics is one of Europe's leading suppliers of technical equipment to the entertainment, leisure and presentation industries.

Stage Lights -

Stage Point - Whether you are looking to hire or buy lighting, sound or staging equipment or install new equipment, Stagepoint Technical Services can help.

Stage Pyro  

Stage Right - They do all sorts of effects for Panto's from pyrotechnics to flame lights.

The Strand Archive - The archive is purely a listing of products that Strand lighting have produced over the years and is for the use of folk who still use those products, and those who are interested in them.

- Just Launched their new website

Strand UK (Education) - A new website dedicated to the Education Market

Terralec Ltd - Everything from Lighting, Sound, Disco Equipment to stage props and makeup.

Terry Tew - Hire, sale or installation.  Supplying all forms of sound, lighting, audio visual and associated equipment.  Supply theatres, schools, pubs, clubs, churches, disco's etc.

- Our main supplier for lighting and sound Hire. The UK's leading supplier of equipment for the Education Entertainment and Event industry

UK Light Bulbs - All sorts of replacement lamps, there are 5000 plus lamps on this site

UK Lighting - A Online Lighting directory 

UKSLC - The United Kingdom Sound & Light Community, a completely free resource for DJ's and sound/light/theatre technicians alike

Used Lighting - An excellent source of New, Used and Ex-Hire lighting equipment – all at bargain prices. We offer a wide selection of Luminaires, Dimmers, Control Desks, Cables, Gobos and Accessories to fit every budget!

UV Lighting - UV Light Technology - For all your UV products and ideas

Last Modified: February 07, 2006