Three Rivers Theatre president Cameron Hindrum looks around their company's new storage facility, where boxes, crates, bags and racks of props and other items are lined up against the wall.
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"There's a box of VHS cassettes that have a lot of our old shows on them," Hindrum said, as he picks up a bright red axe, a prop from a previous play.
"I'd like to sit down and have a look at the videos, so we are going to get them archived and transferred onto digital media."
The cassettes provide a rich audio-visual history of the company's productions stretching back to the 1980s.
The Launceston-based theatre company rediscovered the tapes as they moved their production equipment and archives to a new space in Mowbray, Bek's Room, named after company mainstay Rebecca Phillips.
"Bek stored most of our stuff under her house and sadly about 12 months ago she passed away unexpectedly," Hindrum said.
Phillips started acting in Three Rivers Productions in the 1980s, and took a break to have children and raise her family before re-joining the company in administrative and production roles.
"Bek will be memorialised as Queen of the Props," Hindrum said.
"[That's] because she was often the one who would run around and gather our props for plays and find those cheap bargains and bits of fabric and furniture that we needed. That was her passion.
"A lot of the things she collected are stored in here now. It's quite appropriate that it will bear her name and that's how she'll be remembered."
After the company moved the items from under Phillips' house where they had been stored, the items were briefly stored at Coats Patons before being move to their new facility.
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"The opportunity to purchase this shipping container came up and the company took it," Hindrum said.
Three Rivers Theatre has been a Launceston institution, operating in one form or another since the 1950s.
"We're mindful that we need to start archiving some of that history so it's kept and future generations can know what we got up to, and how active we were," Hindrum said.
Currently the company is best known for the championing of local writing and producing new plays for local audiences.
"We have a series of play readings every year in addition to our main stage productions and we try to incorporate new Tasmanian writing in some of those if we can," Hindrum said.
Friends and supporters of the company are encouraged to attend this weekend's naming ceremony for Bek's Room.
"People are more than welcome to come along and raise a glass with us and we'll officially name it in Bek's honour," Hindrum said.
The official opening of Bek's Room is at Andy's Salvage, Remount Road Mowbray 2pm, Saturday 29 February.