Kaspar Hauser

Production Team

Designer: Anna Jones

Director: Freddie Wake-Walker

Company Manager: Mark Hathaway

Stage Manager: Vicky Adamczyk

Deputy Stage Manager: Anne Hamilton

Assistant Stage Manager: Dougal Gudim

Assistant Stage Manager: Ellen Porteous

Assistant Stage Manager: Juliet Kernohan

Details

Kaspar Hauser - Child of Europe Rory Boyle

Libretto by Dilys Rose

Production Information

Wonky Bars

Part of the set design required the counterweight bars to look old and broken. This was not possible to achieve using the actual counterweight bars, it would mean having to alter the fly lines etc and this would have been a very time consuming process.

In order to create the wonky bars seen on stage, the following was done:

STEP 1. 10x large scaff bars that sit behind the paint shop doors were taken out and joined together to create 5 bars that were all about the same length as a normal counterweight bar.

STEP 2. The chosen counterweight bars were then flown in and the new scaff bars were attatched below using 3 clove hitches left right and middle.

STEP 3. As normal, weights were added to the cradles and the bars were flown out. It was then a case of taking time with the designer to fly the bars in and out and adjusting the length of the clove hitch knot to get the desired angle.

STEP 4. The counterweights were then deaded at the heights the designer wanted.

SIMPLES!

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