Twelfth Night 2018

Twelfth Night
Production	Twelfth Night
Performance Time
Performance Dates	Friday 2nd February 2018 - Wednesday 7th February 2018
Stats
Venue	Chandler
Creative Team
Director	Andrew MacGregor
Fight Director	Raymond Short
Designer	Margaret MacInnes
Lighting Designer	Amy Dawson
Sound Designer	Callum Farrell
Production Team
Production Manager	Ros Maddison
Stage Manager	Riona Gilliland
Deputy Stage Manager	Poppy Apter
Production Electrician	Jak Coventry
Deputy Production Electrician	Adlai Faigen
Technical Stage Manager	Daryl Campbell
Assistant Stage Managers	James McQueen
Jessica Reid
Madeline Hanton
Jessica McKay
Sound Op	Ross Brodie
Lighting Programmer	Craig Stevenson

Stage Management

The designer had requested a large mirror ball hang centre stage in the rig, that - when it was not in use - should be flown up and disguised, so it would be a surprise to the audience. In order to achieve this, we considered how best to go about covering the fixture. A cloth draped over the ball which was just pulled away would mean that re-covering it - upon it flying out - would look messy, and were we to use a hoop with tat surrounding it, it would hang too low and pose a large obstruction to the rest of the LX rig. With this in mind, I set about constructing a box with a load supporting top bar, from which the pulley for the ball could be fitted.

This would have half couplers attached to its sides which, when attached to the catwalk-to-catwalk scaff bars in the venue, would mean the top point of the box would sit as high as the venue’s ceiling - this being the easiest way of getting a point that high. Once the box was constructed and skinned with tat, the ball was fitted inside, the motor attached to line, and diverted off to the SR gantry for control. With a couple of tweaks it worked perfectly, and allowed the mirror ball to be completely hidden when not in use - and still fly in and rotate when required to do so.