Cycloramas - Fabric and PVC Seamless Stage Backdrops by TSA
The sky behind your story.
A cyclorama creates the blank canvas behind the performance. Used for lighting effects, projections and scenic backdrops, it allows a stage to transform from day to night, indoors to outdoors, or anywhere imagination takes it. Manufactured in fabric or PVC, every cyclorama is made to suit your venue and supplied meeting AS 1530 standards, documentation included.
Spec your drape
before you call.
Answer five quick questions. The Drape Selector matches the fabric, fullness and opening style to your venue, then turns it into a PDF spec routed straight to our soft-goods team.
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The specifications, in one table.
| PolyCyc | 200 gsm |
|---|---|
| PolyCyc width | 6.2 m |
| PolyCyc FR and colour | IFR, white; no treatment needed |
| Green and blue screen | 175 gsm, 3.2-10 m wide; NDFR or IFR |
| Re-treat cycle | Filled cloth: surface treatment reapplied over time; PolyCyc none |
| How they hang | Flown or fixed; walkalong where it must move |
| Standard | AS 1530, treatment certificate |
An even field.
No seams, no shadows.
A cyclorama is a large, smooth backdrop stretched across the rear of the stage, designed to take an even wash of light from edge to edge. When lit correctly, it can become open sky, infinite space, a projection surface or a clean, unbroken scenic backdrop, with no seams or hot spots to break the illusion.
We manufacture fabric and PVC cycloramas tailored to the venue, for cleaner lighting effects, better projections and more immersive stage environments. Every cyclorama is made to measure, meets AS 1530 standards with documentation supplied, and is finished to suit the rigging and operating requirements of the space. Not sure which material suits the room? Use the Drape Selector.
The wash
Light it, and the cloth disappears.
Light a cyc evenly and the audience stops seeing fabric. They see sky, dusk or deep water. That is why the face has to be smooth and the seams few.
- SkyCool blue overhead, warm at the horizon. The cloth reads as open air.
- DuskDeep violet falling to a hot horizon line, one field with no step across the cloth.
- NightSaturated blue top to bottom. A smooth face keeps it clean, with no hot-spots.
- AmberA warm wash. Filled cloth is a soft matte white, so it takes the colour evenly.
- MagentaA strong colour state. The seams are planned to sit where the lighting hides them.
Four jobs, one clean field.
Colour washes
Open sky, sunsets and infinite-space looks - a matte field that takes an even wash of colour with no seams and no hot-spots.
Projection
A flat, even surface for full-stage projection and mapped content - no shadow lines, no fall-off across the width.
Film & studio
Solid PVC cyc for infinity coves and chromakey - durable, wipe-clean and welded seamless for high-traffic studios.
Permanent installs
A fixed backdrop for multipurpose halls and PACs - tensioned, edge-finished and supported long-term.
The range
Three bases,
one clean field.
Not every cyclorama is used the same way. Some are designed for theatrical lighting washes, some for projection, and some for video production and chromakey work. We offer three cyclorama materials, each designed for a different application but all delivering the same clean, even backdrop. Select a material below to see how it performs under lighting and projection conditions.
Filled Cloth
- 300-350 g/m²
- Matte, shadow-free
- Cleaned & repaired in place
- FR to AS 1530
The most common cyclorama material used in professional theatres. Filled cloth produces smooth, even lighting washes with excellent colour consistency, making it ideal for stage productions, concerts and performing arts venues. Its soft, matte finish minimises shadows and hot spots, creating the clean backdrop lighting designers rely on. Manufactured to suit your venue and designed for long-term service, it can also be cleaned and repaired in place when required.
Poly Cyclorama
- ~200 g/m² IFR
- Bright matte white
- No retreat cycle
- Lighter to rig
A crisp, matte white poly cyc at around 200 g/m2 with the fire rating built into the fibre - no retreat cycle to manage. Lighter to rig than filled cloth and a bright, even base for saturated colour washes and projection. Made-to-measure with the edge finishing and hanging method your rig needs.
Green Screen
- ~175 g/m²
- Even chromakey green
- Keys clean in post
- NDFR or IFR
A chromakey canvas at around 175 g/m2 in a controlled, even green that keys cleanly under studio light - an off-the-shelf product from our trusted fabric suppliers. Spec it as a backdrop cyc for film, broadcast and photography where the back wall needs to drop out in post. Every chromakey fabric we supply is NDFR or IFR, made-to-measure to your studio.
Need a harder-wearing option? A solid PVC-coated cyclorama at 700 g/m² with welded, hot-air-bonded seams suits film studios and high-traffic permanent installs - wipe-clean and durable, tensioned with an aluminium tube bottom pocket. Every cyc is made-to-measure, meets AS 1530 standards with the documentation supplied, and is finished with the edge treatment and hanging your rig needs. Not sure which base suits the room? Tell the Drape Selector the job, or browse the full soft-goods range. The workshop-side detail - how a cyc is cut, seamed and finished, and in which cloth - lives on the Reveal Productions cyclorama page.
Queensland Training Awards 2025.
A 30 m wide projection backdrop in FR scenery netting with machine-cut IFR Poly Cyc shapes, built for Ikonix.
Read the case study →Clean fields, on real stages.
Cut, sewn and finished in our Melbourne workshop, the home of Reveal Drapes for over twenty years. Same team, same craft, now backed by the scale of TSA.
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A workshop that did not stop when Melbourne did.
Every drape, banquette and piece of soft scenery manufactured in-house through 18 months of lockdowns.
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36 hoists, one ceiling, every brief accepted.
A 36-axis hoist array and five-chord box truss, the turnkey overhead rigging behind the Great Hall.
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4,000 shows. Five flying rigs. Zero missed cues.
Seven-plus years servicing five performer flying rigs and the full stage automation system.
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Cycloramas, stretched and lit.
Cycloramas and projection surfaces installed in theatres, studios and exhibitions.
Questions
about cycloramas.
If your question isn't here, call us or send a brief - we'll come back to you with the right answer for your venue.
Call 1300 439 872 →Tell us your room
specification.
We'll match the base, build it to your dimensions, and supply the AS 1530 paperwork to match.
- We talk. Your room, its dimensions and what the cyc has to do.
- We match. The base for the job: filled cloth, poly or green screen.
- We build. To your dimensions, with the AS 1530 paperwork.