Dialogues des Carmélites 2020

Dialogues des Carmélites 2020
Summary
Location New Athenaeum Theatre
Creative Team
Director Matthew Eberhardt
Set & Costume Designer Justin Nardella
Lighting Designer Peter Goddard
Sound Designer Stuart Henderson
Production Team
Production Manager Kevin Murray
Stage Manager Jessica McKay
Deputy Stage Manager Fiona Elliott
Assistant Stage Managers Nele Hähnsen, Coral Nelson, Alexandra McKenna, India Kilbride
Production Electrician Matthew Craigen
Lighting Programmer Rhys Gaughan
Head Of Stage Sean Ramsay
Head of Automation and Flys Darren Wilson
Deputy Stage Supervisor Noah Dates
Stage Technician Kyle Jessiman

Stage Department

The Team

Head Of Stage Sean Ramsay

Head Of Flys and Automation Darren Wilson

Deputy Head Of Stage Noah Dates

Stage Technician Kyle Jessiman

Weekly Break Down

To help show each member of the team the tasks to be completed and when a document was produced by the Head Of Stage detailing all the activities and would be carrying them out. This would also help with tracking our progress over the fit up to see how we were working with the available time.

Ground Plan

Sliding Front Cloth There was two front cloths for this show one that would fly up and down and another that would slide with a center stage split. The sliding cloth would have a hard masker as a leading edge so using one track we had to make sure that when it was full open the maskers were off stage. All the components that would be used to make this work were drawn up and added to a vectorworks drawing to give an accurate representation of what would be put up on the stage.

Sliding Back Wall

Equipment

Two kit lists were produced for the stage department for this show, One of them was for flys and automation with the other for the stage. Having two lists helped to split up who was needing what equipment and also saved issues if we both tried to makes updates at the same time. The lists have been broken down into section that they should be prepped as and labelled making it easier when fitting up on the stage.

Health And Safety

Pre Show Checks

With all 4 team members having different tasks during the pre show time everyone had a different list with all moving aspects of the show needing checked fully. Meaning all revolve cues would be run daily before each show to test it as it would be run but also for the operator to get the feel of the control. We also needed to check all flying and automation pieces along with the sliding back wall panel and the various parts to that.

Flys & Automation

Head of Flys & Automation Darren Wilson

The show has very little flown aspects to it, with the majority of counterweight bars being used for the LX overhead rig. The only flown element during the show is a Full Black downstage.

As part of the LX design it was requested that there be a truss flown above the revolve, due to the size of the required truss it was decided the truss should be flown on 4 Big Tow winches as the truss was too small to drop chain hoist points down the grid wells and we wanted to avoid removing grid panels and bridles. The LX truss had to be dead hung from a mother grid (with the mother grid being flown on the Big Tow winches) as we couldn't get the 2 downstage points of the LX truss with the winches due to the no fly zones. Above the Mother Grid there will be a Counterweight bar that will be attached to the LX truss with a drift and some half couplers with eye bolts, this is for the cable run, 2 extra weights will be put in the cradle and the brake will be let off to allow the bar to run in and out when the LX truss moves on automation.

There is a 16.5m truss span downstage that holds the track for the sliding masking. The truss is rigged on 4 Loadgaurd chain motors and is strapped of the fly floors.

There is also a 5m FOH truss rigged of catwalk 1.

Lighting

Design