Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
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Synopsis
Production Photographs
All images Ken Dundas, RCS.
Production&Creative Team
Director- Nicholette Moner
Production Manager - Sandy McRobbie
Set Designer - Cordelia Chisholm
Lighting Designer - Roy Herd
Stage Manager - Alice McKay
Deputy Stage Manager - Fiona Findlater
Assistant Stage Managers - Eve Kerr, Ross Jardine, Katy Nicolson, Siobhan Scott
Technical Stage Manager - Melissa MacDonald
Deputy TSM/Head flys - Andrew McCabe
Technical Crew - Stuart Lord, Sarah MacDonald, Chrissie Huxford and Robert Gear
Chief Production Electrician - Blair Omond
Deputy PLX and Lighting Operator - John Beggan
Electrics Crew - Kieran Fitzpatrick, Maciej Kopka
Technical Stage Management
Technical Challenges
Flown Walls
One of our main challenges on this opera was fitting in all of the flown elements. To begin with we rigged the flown walls as normal with turnbuckles, drifts ( 7000m) and flying irons- however, the flown walls were very top heavy as each flat had wooden cornicing along the front (weighing 14kg) this caused all of the walls flats to lean both in their IN and OUT positions.
After much debate new Open Ended drifts and wedge sockets were bought. Rather than hanging the flats from back with the irons in the US side, we hung them by drilling holes in the top of the flat and threading the drifts though the flat to the flying irons which were positioned inside the flat. This distributed the weight more evenly and made a significant difference.
Letter Lines
During the Windsor Forest scene, 100 letters were to fly in. For this we used a hemp bar, a CW bar and, as we had run out of space in the grid, we used x2 3000mm pieces of conduit. We joined them and taped over the join to strengthen it with tape- this fitted better than adding another hemp bar.
The letters were attached to the bars with lengths of 1mm braided cord ( available from Flints at £9.00/100m. ) this worked better than fishing line as the letters were simply empty handmade evelopes- the lack of weight would have made the fishing line curl up and look untidy. The cord had a matte quality to it that made it less obvious than fishing line- which could catch the light.
Individual Love Letter Lines
During Act 2 there were 3 lines which were to be flown in and a love letter attached to each- with not fiddling. At first we attached magnets to the lines and put penny washers in the envelopes. However, due to how little room there was between flown walls, the magnets continuously got stuck on the hardware on the way out.
To resolve this we put the magnets inside the letters and the washers on the lines. These lines were made from the same 1mm cord as the other letters.
Paperwork examples relating to this production for your reference
Fly Plot File:MWWFLY1.pdf
Groundplans at 1:200
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Stage Management
Production Electrics
LX Equipment List
Lighting Control
1x Grand MA Full Size Console
Sound Control and Playback
1x Midas Pro 6 Console
1x Midas DL371 Brain
1x Midas DL215 Stage Box
6x d&b E3 Speakers - Stage Foldback (Paired - DS, MS and US)
3x d&b D6 Amplifiers
4x AKG SE300 Microphones
Lighting Kit
12x CCT Starlette 2K Fresnels
3x Bambino 5K Fresnels
2x Orion 4 Cell Groundrows
4x VL 1000 TSD Moving Fixtures
4x Par 64’s
2x Strand Prelude 16/30’s (Conductor Spots)
9x Coda 1K Floods
35x Selecon 1.2K Fresnels
8x Selecon 1.2K PC’s
20x Strand 15/32 Degree Profiles
15x Strand 23/50 Degree Profiles
8x Strand 26 Degree Profiles
5x Strand 19 Degree Profiles
Stage Kit
1x Conductor Camera
6x Visual Conductor Monitors
- 2x Auditorium (Fixed)
- Prompt Desk
- DSR (Fixed)
- USL (Trolley)
- USR (Trolley)
12x Cans Packs and Headsets
- LX Position
- Sound Position
- Stage Manager
- Deputy Stage Manager
- 4x Assistant Stage Managers
- 2x Fly Floor
- 2x Followspots
10x Cue Lights
- USL
- USR
- DSL
- DSR
- Pit
- 2x Fly Floor
- LX Position
- 2x Followspots
LX Colour Call
L118
7x Cuts of 1.2K Fresnel Size
L174
10x Cuts of SL Size
1x Cut of 1.2K Size
4x Cuts of Orion Groundrow Size
2x Cuts of Par 64 Size
1x Cut of 5K Size
L728
4x Cuts of 1.2K Fresnel Size
L363
12x Cuts of 2K Size
2x Cuts of 1.2K Size
4x Cuts of Orion Groundrow Size
L201
9x Cuts of SL Size
2x Cuts of 1.2K Size
5x Cuts of Coda 1K Flood Size
L202
4x Cuts of SL Size
9x Cuts of 1.2K Size
L017
2x Cuts of SL Size
2x Cuts of 1.2K Fresnel Size
L108
3x Cuts of 1.2K Size
L506
2x Cuts of SL Size
2x Cuts of 1.2K Fresnel Size
L159
4x Cuts of SL Size
2x Cuts of 1.2K Size
4x Cuts of Par 64 Size
2x Cuts of 5K Size
R119
32x Cuts of SL Size
Gel Order - Blacklight
L118 - 1x Full Sheet
L174 - 3x Full Sheets
L728 - 1x Full Sheet
L201 - 2x Full Sheets
L017 - 2x Full Sheets
L108 - 2x Full Sheets
L506 - 2x Full Sheets
L159 - 2x Full Sheets
L202 - 2x Full Sheets
L363 - 3x Full Sheets
R119 - 6x Full Sheets