Focusing on stage technology in its widest sense, and covering all types of performance venues, this is the first international conference structured to attract theatre technicians, architects, consultants, scenographers, lighting designers, stage and building services engineers, acousticians and fire control specialists, as well as administrators, building owners, cost consultants and project managers. The conference includes papers and discussions on the current trends in stage machinery and other stage technologies, alongside debate about the types of, and need for, new buildings. One of the aims of the meeting is to offer those designing, financing and managing major arts projects an insight into the combination of art and science that makes live theatre.
The conference is being sponsored largely by the international stage engineering industry, along with many other equipment suppliers, consultants, architects and other theatre-related organisations. Committed sponsors to date include Telestage/Waagner-Biro, Stage Technologies, Unusual Rigging, Blackout Triple-E, SBS Buhnentechnik, Sansei Yusoki, Bytecraft, Delstar Engineering and Serapid. International speakers from all aspects of the performing arts are being invited to contribute. The conference is presented by the Association of British Theatre Technicians in conjunction with its Industry Supporters Group and the Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre. The three-day event precedes the annual ABTT Theatre Show which takes place from 19 - 20 June 2002.
