First launched at PLASA 2023, our annual shop window for historical and interesting equipment and systems was at the PLASA show at Olympia from 1-3 September 2024.
We were at PLASA again this year, from 7-9 September 2025 at Olympia in London, on stand K109 on the upper gallery.
On Display:
Betty – Strand System CD – courtesy Historic Stage Lighting Collective
Thorn Q-File – courtesy Broadcast Engineering Museum
ETC Microvision – courtesy ETC
ETC Obsession 2- courtesy WL
PanCans – courtesy HSLC
Patt 263 cutaway – courtesy HSLC
Altman 360Q – courtesy WL
Source Four – number 5 off the production line – courtesy ETC
GoldenScan – courtesy BHC/WL
PAL1200 – courtesy Martin
VL1 – courtesy PRG
Every issue of LSi ever published – courtesy PLASA
Lighting Plans – courtesy BHC / Theatrecrafts
Drawing board, stencils, pens
Cut-away Verlinde chain hoist – courtesy Chris Higgs
Pitching Digital Light Curtain – courtesy WL
Revox B77 – courtesy Autograph (with provision to record, play and edit tape)
WEM Copicat tape-based echo machine, courtesy Mike Walker/Loh Humm
Steeldeck decking holding it all up!
New for 2025 – The Projection Space
You can also explore stand K82, the Projection Space, new this year!
In action: Aldust Tutor, Tutor2 projectors, Optikinetics GoBoShow and K2 projector – psychedelic projection
Strand effects discs and projectors (including clouds and flames, of course, but also many others – rain, snow, smoke, plants, dots, skeletons….)
With thanks to key supporters:
- Autograph
- Steeldeck
- White Light
And huge thanks to those who’ve loaned equipment:
- Historic Stage Lighting Collective (HSLC)
- Technical Theatre Preservation Group (TTPG)
- Broadcast Engineering Museum
- ETC
- PRG
- Martin
- Backstage Heritage Collection
- Theatrecrafts.com
- LSi / PLASA Media
Past Classic Gear Live events
Keywords: PLASA 2024 PLASA Collection 2024