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Description
Drawings for RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) productions at Stratford-upon-Avon, London, and elsewhere, including e.g. theatre drawings and seating layouts.
It should be noted that:
a) The drawings are not comprehensive drawings for a complete production, but frequently just show specific details such as a chair, box etc.
b) There are engineering plans of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) for various years, showing layouts of offices etc,
c) There are layouts of audience seating plans for various UK venues that the Company used in its touring productions, including e.g. school halls.
d) Conventional theatre location abbreviations are used as on the drawings; e.g. u/s = upstage, p/s = prompt side etc.