The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book
Production	A3 Jungle Book
Performance Time
Performance Dates	December 2017
General
Venue	New Atheneum Theatre
Creative Team
Designer	Robin Peoples
Lighting Designer	Stephen Keenan
Sound Designer	Jack McWeeny
Production Team
Production Manager	Stephen Roe
Stage Manager	Laurie Sutton
DSM	Kirstie Connel
ASM	Cameron Kerr
Andrew Swarbrigg
Jak Coventry
TSM	Yesha Subotincic West
DTSM	Regan Kelly
Head of Flys	James Hamilton
Sound 1	Steven Selby
PLX	Amy Dawson
LX Crew	Ross Brodie
Craig Stevenson
Andrew Johnston
LX Programmer	Calum Dunbar

Overview

In the year in which Disney's first cartoon celebrates its 50th anniversary, we are delighted to present Stuart Paterson's acclaimed stage adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original Jungle Book stories. The story of Mowgli, the baby stolen by a tiger and raised by wolves, is thrilling and heart-warming all at once. As Mowgli finally defeats the fearsome tiger, with help from his animal friends, he must come to terms with what life holds for him next, in the jungle or the village.

Thur 14 Dec / 12.30pm - Relaxed Performance.

Fri 15 Dec / 7pm - Signed in BSL by Iain Hodgetts and Janice Murdoch.

Stage Management

Fake Fruit (Bananas) - Jak Coventry

Make the Inside Bean Bags:

1. Draw and cut out the template for the bags. One large “leaf shape” front and two side flaps.

2. Overlock the side flaps to the large front and turn inside-out. Do not overlock the opening yet!

3. Fill the bag with beans and some wadding, pin it closed and use wither the overlocker or the sewing machine to stitch it closed.

Make the Outside Cover:

1. Draw and cut out the template for the covers, these are the same as the templates used for the inside bean bags but are 1cm larger at each edge. The outside covers are made from fleece material, obviously yellow!

2. Using the sewing machine, and yellow thread, sew the side flaps to the large front part.

3. Wrap the inside bean bags in some wadding and stuff into the fleece covers.

4. Pin and machine the fleece material closed.

5. Cut off any of the remaining threads.

The designer asked that these fruits were to look bruised and a bit older so they were sprayed with a black paint solution to show bruising, and painted at the tops and bottoms to make the bananas look realistic.

The other pieces of fruits used the same system in that they had an inner bean bag to ensure the beans didn’t spill out if the material burst at any moment.

Some of these fruits will be added the props store in the fake fruit section.

Technical Stage Management

The Team

• 
  Technical Stage Manager - Yesha Subotincic West
• 
  Deputy Technical Stage Manager - Regan Kelly
• 
  Head of Flys - James Hamilton

First Year Stage Crew

Joshua Brown, Greig Buckley, Neal Clark, Lewis Douglas, Rhys Gaughan, Peter Goddard, Meirian Hall-Jones, Ronan O'Neill

Ground plan

Scan of hand drawn plan by Robin Peoples.

Performer Flying

Click here [1] to see the first (mini) test video of the Flying Monkey track system.

The performer flying gear was set up on a table in the SL wing. We used a setting list to ensure everything was in place pre-show.

We had a particular check list for the performer flying in addition to the pre-show check list. One of these was filled out and signed every day. The completed lists were kept in the TSM Master folder. The checks in the morning took roughly 20-30 minutes to complete. The checks were done and hour before the hour call in order to leave room to fix any issues that may arise. 50 kg in the form of stage weights were put on each line every morning and we ran the flying monkey sequence from beginning to end.

Kaa on Silks

Rope Swing

Flys

Lighting

The Team

Production Electrician - Amy Dawson

Lighting Designer - Stephen Keenan

LX Programmer - Calum Dunbar

Lighting Crew - Craig Stevenson, Ross Brodie, Andrew Johnston

Lighting Plans

A Stephen Keenan design.

Sound

Photos