She Loves Me

She Loves Me
Summary
Dates 3rd - 6th December 2024
Location New Athenaeum
Creative Team
Director Vik Sivalingam
Lighting Designer William Sheils
Sound Designer Cara Slaughter
Set and Costume designer Alex Doidge-Green
Production Team
Stage Supervisor Nathan George
Deputy Stage Supervisor Trudy Nelson
Head Of Flys Pipe
Technical Stage Technicians Sandy Bishop, Cormac Cameron-Finn, Ross Mcilwaine
Stage Manager Paola Soliz
Deputy Stage Manager Saul Johnstone
LX Programmer Smiles Ricci
LX Technicians/Spot Ops Sean Jarvie, Devin Jamieson, Julia Coulthard
Sound 1 David Kyle
PSE Daniel Barclay
Sound 2 Haydon Brewis
Sound Technicians Sonny Wardrope, Emily Lumley, Skye Bell-Burn, Ravyn MacDonald

Technical Stage Department

Masking with Truss

For this show we knew that the design needed hard masking and that this would take up a lot of our hemp lines that we have in stock. Each hard masker needs two hemp lines and we had 8 hard maskers, meaning that 16 hemp lines would already be used. Because of sight lines, due to having large trucks coming off an on from the wings, we knew that we would have gaps in our masking, and therefore would need to use dog legs around the back of each hard masker and borders in front in order to close these gaps. Each dog leg takes another 3 hemp lines, so in total another 24 hemp lines would have to be used. In stock, we only have 24 44m hemp lines, so we wouldn't have had enough for all the hard maskers and dog legs. This is when we thought about using truss. We decided the easiest way to cut down on the amount of hemp lines we were using was to have truss spanning the length of the wing on both SL and SR, hanging on two motors, placed motor down, and have 4 scaff bars coming off of each truss at a 90 degree angle using doughty clamps, in order for the dog legs to go along the truss and across each scaff bar. This means we can use 16 hemp lines for the hard maskers, and the remaining 8 to have pickup points on each end of the border bars, as we have 2m extensions on each of these.

Flys

Fly Plot

Flys Preset Check

Master fly cue list

Kabuki Letter Drop System

Originally when we thought about how we would do a letter drop system, we decided on simply putting letters in two buckets that were zip tied to a pole with a pulley system, in order to tip the buckets over for the letters to fall out. However this turned out to not work well, as the buckets wouldn't fully tip enough for all the letters to fall out, and also all the letters clumped together instead of spreading and falling nicely. We went away and re thought our plan, and instead decided to create a simple old school kabuki style system.

We got a rectangular piece of black tat and found a wooden pole. We used the staple gun to attach one side of the black tat to the wooden pole, and on the other side we attached 4 cyc stretchers and bits of sash tied together in small loops (as when we used larger loops they tended to get stuck around the scew eyes). We then attached 4 pins evenly along one long piece of sash in order to create a release mechanism, making sure that there was enough sash to reach down to prompt side flys. Along the wooden pole, we put in 8 screw eyes for the pins to go through, in order to hold the other side of the tat up against the wooden pole. We made sure that the second screw eye of each group was at a lower height than the first, to make sure that none of the pins accidentally fell out and released the system at the wrong time. This all works by putting a pin through one screw eye, then through one of the sash loops, then through the second screw eye, and repeating this for each of the loops along the tat.

We also added in screw eyes at each end (before the first set and just before the last set) that the release line with the pins ran through so that the line wouldn't fall when the kabuki was released.

In the end, we repeated this process twice to make three kabukis total, in differing lengths. We then flew these kabukis on two hemp points each and ran the release lines to the fly floor to be released during the show. To reset the kabukis, we could just lower them in and refill them.

Rehearsal Revolve Build

The Stage Management team requested a rehearsal revolve so that the cast could practice turning the revolve in order to work out timings. We installed the real revolve set piece in the rehearsal room for one session (to introduce the cast to it) however, it couldn't stay there permenantly as it needed to be put onstage before the rehearsals were finished and the room had to be cleared every weekend. However, we found that 3 pieces of steel deck in series was only around 10cm less than the length of the real revolve. We used wooden blocks and bolts to attach a base plate to the center of the middle steel deck. We also screwed another base plate into the floor where the center of the revolve needed to be and a short steel scaff bar between the two base plates acted as the pivot point for the revolve.

We bolted the three pieces of steel deck together and attached 8 swivel wheels on legs (4 on the central piece of deck and 2 on the outside legs of each outer peice of deck) which we borrowed from NTS. We origianlly planned to use fixed casters however we realised that we wouldn't be able to get the angles on them precice enough to ensure it revolved around the center pivot point. Despite concerns that they'd get jammed when changing directions, swivel wheels worked well.

The legs that we used with the wheels made the deck sit at around the same height as the beches on the revolve which allowed the cast to rehearse as if they were there. We also added scaff pipes on bases to either end of the steel deck to mimick where the cast would push the revolve round.

Lighting

Practicals:

100w lamp in an frosted Victorian Lamp Housing for a streelamp.

12x 100w lamps in bauble housing constructed by props flown in for "12 Days of Christmas"

24v LED Tape inside the lightbox "Maraczek" Sign

24v LED Tape inside the cupboards in the central perfume bottle front and back to create an infinite effect.

Dimmable WW fairy lights for the christmas tree frame. 2x 10m strands to wagos.

External Hires:

6x Martin Mac Viper Performance

8x Astera Titan Tubes (placed inside the lightbox bar)

12x COLORdash Q12 Par

13x Robe CYCFX8 (lighting backdrop)

1x Data Rack with 8way sacn/artnet node and 2x 2way buffers.

Various cabling.

Kit supplied by: SLS Scotland, TallPoppy and CODA Production Services

Electrics Team:

LD: William Sheils

PLX: Gun Lai

DPLX: Jon Ross

Programmer: Jessica Ricci

Lighting Tech: Paige MacGillivray

Follow Spot Ops: Sean Jarvie, Julia Coulthard, Devin Jamieson

Sound

Sound Designer - Cara Slaughter

Sound 1 - David Kyle

PSE - Daniel Barclay

Sound 2 - Haydon Brewis

Sound Technicians - Sonny Wardrope, Emily Lumley, Skye Bell-Burn, Ravyn MacDonald

Speakers:

6 X E3 - Foldback

4 X E0 - Front Fills

2 X

2 X

2 X Minirig 2 - Music box, phone call, plate crash

Music Breakdown

Rack Patches

Labels

Stage Management

The Stage management team consisted of Paola Soliz as the Stage Manager, Saul Johnstone as the Deputy Stage Manager and Grant Haddow, Eilidh Watt, Sal Quinlin and Roy Shearer as Assistant Stage Managers.