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How to Archive a Digital Theatre Production

Archiving a digital theatre production means capturing the work and the conditions that produced it: master recordings, source and show-control files, scripts and caption or surtitle files, rights and consent records, descriptive metadata, and a preservation plan that outlives the platform it…

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What Theatre Archives Preserve—and What They Leave Out

Theatre archives preserve the documentary residue of performance—programmes, prompt books, designs, photographs, contracts and press reviews—but not the live event itself. The gaps are shaped by who…

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Editorial stock photographs illustrate themes; they do not document the productions discussed on this site. Used under the Pexels licence.