L'Infedelta Delusa
| L'Infedelta Delusa |
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| Summary |
| Dates 25th-31st January 2025
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| Location New Athenaeum Theatre
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| Production Team |
| Production Manager Jacqui Howard
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| Stage Manager Tamsin Harper Jenkins
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| Deputy Stage Manager Nina Madriz
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| Assistant Stage Managers Lauren Murison & Zeni Bollok
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| Stage Supervisor |
| Deputy Stage Supervisor |
| Head of Flys |
| Lighting Programmer Jon Ross
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| Production Electrician |
| Deputy Production Electrician Gun Lai
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| Follow Spots lara Cassidy & Gun Lai
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Summary
L’infedeltà delusa is a simple Tuscan story of a peasant father Filippo arranging the marriage of his daughter, Sandrina, to a rich farmer, Nencio. Sandrina respects her father but already loves Nanni, a humble gardener, with the whole arrangement thrown upside down as Nanni’s sister, Vespina, is infatuated with Nencio. - Bachtrack.com
Company
Stage Management
Technical Stage
Stage
Lift doors
For the lift doors we had he specific design note that the SR and SL doors had to close in time with one another and meet up flush in bang on centre stage. in order to do this we decided to use a pulley system. This was a closed loop of rope that ran from the floor SL, up through a pulley on the track along to the SR pulley and then back over SL and down the the floor. The sections of rope that ran across the top of the track were then attached to each of the doors with builders band.
Lift wall Panels
For the changing walls in the lift we used double sided panels that slid in to a gap between the celing and walls. Each panel had a sloped wooden wedge at the top that allowed them to sit at the exact hight of the wall, this was necessary as the ceiling of the lift sloped down on the upstage end.
Prep Work
To prep for the fit up we decided to pre rig the large truss cube that sat behind the wall and had the door track attached to it. We did this as it allowed us to spend more time with the main wall as it was very tedious and needed extra time to be installed safely.
Stage Paper Work
Flies
Confetti drop
For the confetti drop we hemp flew two 6m staff pipes and attached a large piece of tat which with then had lots of holes cut in it. to drop the confetti the upstage bar fas flown in and out repeatedly to allow the confetti to fall through the holes in the tat.
Flying cloths
All 5 of the clothes were individually hemp flown with the 3 SR going off the the fly floor and the 2 SL running to prop side flies. each hemp line had a double figure 8 knot at the end and then shackled to the red hooks. To attach the cloth to the hooks we just tied the middle of the cloth with a constrictor knot then clove hitched that the to hooks.
Safety Sign
For the sign we decided to rig it on drifts. we used a 2m drift on the static side and a 3m drift on the dropping side. the 3m drip was then run up through a pulley on the bar over to the electric Kabuki. we tied a long piece of rope to the end of the drift that went in the Kabuki, through a pulley and then ran it along the bar, tying it off with a weight in the middle of the loop between the knot and pulley. the power for the Kabuki was run up to flies and operated by the flyman.
Flies paper work
Lighting Department
Lighting Plan
Practicals
The lift had 4 different practicals in it.
Two ceiling lights with were made with 24W RGBcW Tape. These were repurposed from "The Wonderful World of Dissocia 2023"
Two sets of 24V RGBcWwW Tape ran up each side of the lift for a lift when they reached the back of the lift. These were originally just attached to the set but after some issues we put metal tubing for them to live in.
There were a set of lift buttons SR in the lift which were lit up and made noise. I won't take credit for these as they came from ReSet and we just had to do a little altering to get power to them.
There were two lift buttons on the front of the lift. We did not end up using these as they weren't bright enough and the cueing would be difficult.
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The Design featured 4x Tall Booms with 11 S4 VNSP Pars on each. Each par had to be individually controlled.
Two ways of Soca ran to each boom and ran to each fly floor or void respectably.
There was also a TV which was above the lift to be a display of what floor we were at.
I used After Effects to make the content. I used a text layer with a Mosaic Effect, Colour Ramp, Change to Colour and put a mask (which had a circular pixel per mosaic tile) over this.
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The FOH encore was hung on the first circle and we noticed the spill out the side wasn't great. We had no budget left so I 3D modelled and printed some Tophats for them. I used the City Theatrical Top Hat as reference.
After testing we realised the front of the encore does not get too hot even after being on for long periods of time. This meant we could use standard PVC. It had 100% infill just in case and we checked every day for damage or warping.
The encores already have screws on them to attach accessories so this was fairly easy and cheap!
The encore was hung in the first circle which meant it hung very low. To keep it as high as possible we attached the zebedee's directly to it. To hang it we put one of the encore and the other in the track with the attachment on it. We lifted the encore up at 90dg to the track and turned it to slot in. Then we clipped the other one on.
We set hard limits on the fixture to have it always point on stage which meant the only time it could point down or back was when it lost power.
This was all followed up with a RA.
