Street Scene

Street Scene

Summary Dates May 19, 21, 23, 25 2018 Performance Course Location NAT Creative Team Director Alexandra Spencer Jones Conductor Robert Houssart Designer Adrian Linford Lighting Designer Charlie Morgan Jones Sound Designer Fraser Cherrington Production Team Production Manager Stephen Roe Stage Manager Rebecca Bell Deputy Stage Manager Susannah McWhirter Production Electrician Emma Campbell Deputy Production Electrician and GrandMA2 Programmer Karyn Wilson LX Crew and Followspot Matthew Craigen, Greig Buckley Technical Stage Manager Dimitri Grant Deputy Technical Stage Manager and Head of Flys James McQueen Stage Technicians Lewis Douglas, Fiona Elliott, Dale Gibb

About the Show

Weill said of Rice's play, “It (is) a simple story of everyday life in a big city, a story of love and passion and greed and death. I saw great musical possibilities in its theatrical device – life in a tenement house between one evening and the next afternoon.” Street Scene is an 'American opera', providing a synthesis of European opera and American musical theatre. In the 1980s Scottish Opera premiered Street Scene in the UK, and we look forward to seeing it again on a Glasgow stage in May. (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 2018)

Source:

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. (2018). Street Scene - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. [online] Available at: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice-event/eventid/118009-Street-Scene [Accessed 11 May 2018].

Technical Stage Management

Set Elements

Houses

The main structure of the apartment block was assembled from a combination of steel deck, our customised 'Chess deck', and a lot of additional steel. Due to the voids in the stage floor DSR and USC to accommodate the walk down traps, the whole structure was built on a cantilever. The balconies from the top floor of houses two and three were also cantilevered out as extensions of the safe grid top of the upper floor's deck; balcony two being able to hold a maximum of two people at any one time, with balcony three accommodating one.

Both due to access to these balconies, and due to the action taking place within the house, many of the windows had to be practically counterweighted. Unlike a traditional sash window, we weighted them externally from the frame, attaching eye screws to the window panel and tying on window sash, which was then run up to a small pulley before being attached to weighted sandbags. In total, it took around 2 1/2 to 3kg of weight on each window to keep it balanced. Due to the nature of the house, the placement of these weights and their travel distance had to be taken into account, so as they were not viewed by the audience, or cast too much of a noticeable shadow from the many practical fixtures in the structure.

Lighting

Scroller

Manual - Rainbow 15" plus

Media:15plusmanual.pdf

Programming a Scroller on GrandMA2

We had a rainbow plus 15' scroller on a 5k with 12 scrolls. To program this on grandMA2 you can use the Dimmer Scroller generic fixture profile. This allows you to control both dimmer and colour in the same channel. In the patch you can assign the dimmer and the scroller separate addresses. Once everything is patched you can use the first encoder wheel in the colour preset to scroll through the scroller. Once you reach each scroll store it as a colour presets allowing you to reach each colour quickly and easily.