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==''Pucks Rope''==
==''Pucks Rope''==
[[Image:MSNDSSWnew.jpg|750px]]


==''Chinese Pole''==
==''Chinese Pole''==

Revision as of 20:14, 3 February 2013


A Midsummer Nights Dream 2013 - opera
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Creative
Director Olivia Fuchs
Writer Benjamin Britten
Designer Niki Turner
Original Lighting Designer Bruno Poet
Revival Lighting Designer Warren Letton
Video Designer Jon Driscoll
Conductor Timothy Dean
Stats
Venue Theatre Royal, Glasgow,Kings Theatre, Edinburgh

Story

Now in its eighth year, our ambitious Winter collaboration with Scottish Opera continues with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth with a revival of Olivia Fuchs’ 2005 production for the Royal Opera House of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adapted from the Shakespeare play in collaboration with Peter Pears, Britten’s version is centred on the ethereal world of the fairies rather than the human action at the heart of the original.

Crew

  • Production Manager-




  • Chief Production Electrician- James Gow
  • Deputy Production Electrician-
  • Production Electricians-
  • Lighting Programmer/Operator-

TSM

Pucks Rope

Chinese Pole

Automation

As part of the set up for A Midsummer Nights Dream a performer had to fly in what was called the 'bower box'. To achieve this effect we used a Stage Tech system similar to the one we use in the New Athenaeum Theatre. The system had been changed slightly and added to in order to fly a performer and to achieve the correct effect.


The system was made up of the following equipment;

  • Illusonist Control Desk
  • Au-Tour Rack
  • UPS
  • Big Tow Winch (modified with 2 points)
  • Truss
  • Various Drifts
  • Swifter Lines (tention lines)


Because the winch only had 2 points coming from it, we attached them to truss and then attached the 4 bower points to the truss so that; A-all of the points coming off the bower were straight and B-We could lift the bower using the 2 lines on the winch and did not have to have an even more complicated system

Below is a diagram of how the system looked and how it was cabled up.


Stage Management

Creating the bursting paper effect

Electrics