The Bacchae
| The Bacchae | |
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| Summary | |
| Dates 4th & 5th November
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| Performance Course Third Year BA Acting
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| Location New Atheneum Theatre
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| Creative Team | |
| Director Finn Den Hertog
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| Assistant Director Speir
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| Designer Melania Cwynar
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| Movement Director Vicki Manderson
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| Sound Designer | |
| Lighting Designer | |
| Production Team | |
| Stage Manager | |
| Deputy Stage Manager | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | |
| Stage Supervisor | |
| Head of Flys | |
| Deputy Technical Stage Manager | |
| Deputy Technical Stage Manager | |
| Production Electrian | |
| Lighting Crew | |
| Lighting Crew | |
| Production Sound Engineer | |
| Sound No.2 | |
Team
Overview
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by Euripides. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of Prince Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysos. The god Dionysos appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to avenge the slander, which has been repeated by his aunts, that he is not the son of Zeus. In response, he intends to introduce Dionysian rites into the city, and he intends to demonstrate to the king, Pentheus, and to Thebes that he was indeed born a god. At the end of the play, Pentheus is torn apart by the women of Thebes and his mother Agave bears his head to her father Kadmos.
Cast
Stage Management
File:Initial Props List Bacchae.xlsx
The stage management for this show produced new challenges under the current Covid climate, actors had to consistently social distance during rehearsals and contact with props had to remain limited. To combat this several inventive solutions had to be found. 2-metre markings were placed within the rehearsal rooms so the actors could be conscious of their spacing, on top of this hand sanitizer and wipes were placed around to allow cleaning in between scenes. The air circulation was kept clear by opening the door during breaks and props were only allowed to be touched by the actor using them.
Technical Stage Department
Flys and Automation
There were 2 Main Flying Elements to this show the first one being the Splitting Set Pice and the second one being the multiple Petal drops in the Show.
Splitting Set
For the Splitting Set Pice we used two of the Big Tow Motors. The Pice was made up of a 16 by 5 border and plywood covered in black serge. These were both rigged to a 13m span of truss. The Border was just tied to the top run of the truss whilst the ply had a hanging iron going - 1 ton Shackle - turn buckle - 1 ton shackle - 4m drift - 1 ton shackle - double chocked 1/2m sling on bottom run of the truss. There was also a static bottom section to the splitting set made of Hard maskers on their side and plywood covered in black serge. During the Show the Set Pice had a simple move of just going from its in dead to its out dead over 67 Seconds.
Petal Drop
The Director want the petal Drop to cover the whole stage and so in order to achieve this we decided to use 2 drop bags one further down stage and one further up stage in the hope that they would cover the whole stage. We made the two drop bag out of some spare material we had in the dock the were both 11m long and had cuts made ever 30cm in the bottom 1/3 along the full 11m. these cuts are what allowed the petals to drop. the were each tied across two bars loaded with petals and then flown out to there out dead. they were operated by moving one of the bars in and out. The speed at which the bar was moved and the length of it it was moved for both affected how many petals would be dropped
Flys Bible
Points Plan
Points Master
Sound
Plans
PSE Cable Runs
File:Bacchae PSE Cable Runs v2021.pdf
Equipment Used
control
1 x Midas Pro 6 Sound Console
2 x Midas DL251 Stage Boxes (1 in control room, 1 in void)
1 x MacBook Pro (running QLab)
1 x Focusrite Pro 40 Interface
Speakers
2 x D&b E12 Speakers
4 x D&b E8 Speakers
2 x D&b Qi7
3 x D&b Qi-SUB
2 x D&b Max 12 Wedges
6 x D&b E0's
Radio Microphones
5 x Shure AD4Q Receivers
20 x Shure AD1 Transmitters
4 x Shure UHFR Receivers
2 x UR1 Transmitters
2 x UR1-M Transmitters
3 x UR2 HandHelds
Recording Setup
1 x Yamaha LS9
1 x Focusrite 18i20 (third Generation)
1 x MacBook Air (Running Logic Pro)
2 x Roland Cube Monitors