A Midsummer Nights Dream 2013 - opera

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-

• Stage Manager-
• Deputy Stage Manager-
• Assistant Stage Managers- Rosie Barber, Ashley Kerray

• Technical Stage Manager- John Beggan
• Deputy Technical Stage Manager/Flys- Jennifer Howes
• Deputy Technical Stage Manager/Automation - Andrew McCabe
• Assistant Technical Stage Managers -

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

TSM

Pucks Rope

SAFE SYSTEMS OF WORK 5

TASK – Artist Rope into Position

HAZARDS – Rope, Stinger dropped from Height Rope to come loose during performance

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED – Fixed Truss Piece in grid 2 Wire Rope Stinger from grid Master link tied between 2 fly bars to stop swing Ratchet straps to tie off flybars

PROTECTIVE CLOTHING –Safety Shoes, Hard Hat

PROCEDURE-

1. Wire rope Stingers taken to grid 2. Fixed onto load tested position 3. Lowered in to plump position 4. Artist rope taken up on to grid shackled on to stingers 5. Master link attached to fly bars 6. Rope dropped in from grid and through master link 7. Flybars ratchet off to flyfloor 8. Rope Tried and tested

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.