Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms
Listing of over 1400 jargon terms

• Animated Knots for Scouts
• The Riggers Page (including large knots section)
• Stage Rigging Articles - Peter Albrecht Company
• Rigging Seminars (USA)

Equipment Suppliers

• Acre Jean - Drapes (London, UK)
• Cablenet (Tension wire grid from Slingco, UK)
• Doughty Engineering - UK/USA
• Electroline Europe - Esmet Electroline Wire Rope Fittings and wire rope (West Sussex, UK)
• Exhibit and Display Truss - (Pickering, Ontario, Canada)
• Flint Hire & Supply - UK
• Glantre Engineering Ltd (Berkshire, UK)
• HB Climbing - Personal fall-protection and safety equipment (Wales, UK)
• Heightec - Equipment for working at height and rescue (Cumbria, UK)
• HH Specialties - Drapes, curtain tracks (CA, USA)
• James Thomas Engineering
• JR Clancy (New York, USA)
• Lyon Equipment - Personal fall-protection and safety equipment (Cumbria, UK)
• Manila Cordage Company - Ropes (Phillipines)
• NARC - (UK) National Access and Rescue Centre (Cumbria, UK)
• Opti Trilite truss
• Parlights (MD, USA) Lighting & Rigging
• PCM Lodestar - Motorised Chain hoists
• Rigging Supplies (UK)
• Sapsis Rigging (USA)
• Secoa - Stage Equipment
• Slingco - Tension wire grids
• TMB - Electrical, lighting and rigging equipment
• Total Fabrications - Truss etc. (UK)
• Trilite - Truss (UK)
• Triple-A Flight Cases (UK)

Rigging Companies

• LGH Rigging Services (London, UK)
• Unusual - Rigging, suspension and automation (London, UK)
• Vertigo Rigging

Rigging Services

• ASG Stage Products (Lancashire, UK)
• BJ Designs (West Sussex, UK)
• Metro Rigging (London, UK)

For Flying effects, see the Effects page
For Scenic Automation, see the Scenic page

Training

• ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians - UK)
• LETI (Lifting Equipment Training Initiative - UK)
• METIER National Training Organisations for the Arts and Entertainment Industries
• NCDT National Council for Drama Training

Unions/Associations

• BECTU
• IATSE International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (USA)