The Assumption
| The Assumption | |
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| Summary | |
| Dates 9th - 13th November
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| Performance Course BA Performance in BSL and English
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| Location Tramway
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| Creative Team | |
| Director Jon Lloyd
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| Designer Ruth Darling
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| Sound Designer | |
| Lighting Designer Lizzie Powell
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| AV Designer Daniel Hughes
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| Production Team | |
| Production Manager Mickey Graham
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| Stage Manager | |
| Deputy Stage Manager | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | |
| Technical Stage Manager | |
| Production Electrian | |
| Production Sound Engineer | |
Overview
Stage Management
Technical Stage Management
The technical considerations for The Assumption, present from the first white card meeting, were a 3000mm platform US, a hanging "shard", SR/SL set elements, and a 2000mm platform CS with articulating walls/ floor. Furthermore, the show was in the Tramway which required extra consideration for transport of kit, venue specifications/ dimensions, and set build.
3000mm Platform
Originally, the platform was going to be eight sets of 8x4 steel deck all at 3000mm high with a single 3000mm tread for access/egress. Fairly immediately, that was flagged and resolved as an issue for the TSD department because we 1) don't have enough legs in stock for forty 3000mm steel deck legs, 2) wanted to avoid using an unsupported 3000mm high tread (without the ability to be fixed to the ground with the stage floor in the Tramway being concrete), and 3) doubted we could sufficiently stabilise a 3000mm high platform with that much area in its footprint. This meant reducing the amount of steel deck to five pieces and intermittently rising to 3000mm in two sections. One section at 1600mm high with three 8x4 steel decks and the other section at 3000mm high with two 8x4 steel decks. The platforms would then be accessed using two treads in stock, one at 1600mm and the other at 1400mm and sitting on the first platform. Both treads had corresponding handrails.
In order to conform to the GCC's raised platform regulation (Section 89 form), we had to ensure that all platforms over 600mm were sufficiently stabilised. This is achieved with cross bracing. Ideally, all legs of a platforms are given "feat", which are lengths of scaffold that adjoin the legs parallel to the floor. Additionally, all legs are cross braced. This can be seen in the rendering below.
In order to mask the platform from the audience, bars and borders were provided by the Tramway and hung from the fixed grid in the venue.
Sound
Cue Sheet
Input and Output List
System Diagram and Description