066 REPORT
NATIONAL THEATRE Photo courtesy of KSL Studio d.o.o
KSL Studio d.o.o, Robert Juliat’s Slovenian distributor, has supplied 40 Robert Juliat 614SX 1200W tungsten profile spots to the National Theatre Nova Gorica in Slove- nia, where they will be the main workhorses for the theatre’s varied programme. One of the youngest professional theatres in Slovenia, the National Theatre Nova Gorica has a repertoire of contemporary and classical plays and stages a total of six premieres per season, in addition to theatre and dance summer workshops. “We proposed the Robert Juliat profiles to the theatre which was looking to update its stock of front of house profiles,” says KSL’s General Manager, Bostjan Konic. “The technical staff tried them on site and agreed that they were the best product on offer.”
All of the theatre’s front of house profile spots have now been replaced by the Robert Juliat zoom fixtures. “The lighting technicians have reported that they are very satis-
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Company: Unusual Rigging Location: London, UK
Unusual Rigging has completed work at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for the stun- ning musical production of Shrek. Work included hanging over three tons of speakers on the front of house truss, and around 18 tons of set.
Simon Stone, Project Manager for Unusual Rigging, explained: “The most interest- ing and challenging part of the project from our point of view was working out how
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to hang so many pieces of set, including over 40 cloths, with so little weight in the house counterweight sets. The theatre has an extremely old counterweight system which can only take up to 125kg in each cradle; an Unusual Ladderbeam on its own weighs that much, so we knew we had a lot of work to do. “For the three flown pieces that weigh over 1400kg each, we replaced the theatre counterweight cradles with Unusual’s, each of which can take up to 1.5 tonnes. But the budget wouldn’t have stretched to replacing as many counterweight sets as needed for the show. So instead, we took advantage of the fact that the theatre has 125 counterweight sets, split between both sides of the stage, so every flown piece has two steel wire ropes from a stage left cradle and two steel wire ropes from a stage right cradle, to give us enough cradle capacity. This way, each piece of set is actually countered on both sides of the stage. When you pull a counterweight rope on stage left, there is a second cradle flying on stage right.” Across the theatre, Unusual had to use some five tonnes - 600 metres - of ladder beam and put in six of its own cradles to add to the 80 house cradles. Unusual were also asked to hang one of the heaviest theatre speaker systems they have ever encountered - a three tonne speaker stack from the main front of house truss, above the stage. “We put in additional steelwork in the front of house void,” said Stone. “And hung the truss on eight one tonne hoists, instead of the usual three. We also needed to fit four spreader beams, because the speaker stack needed to be mounted between two sets of points. For part of the show, a computer controlled dragon flies through the audience. Although the automation for the dragon was supplied by another company, Scott Fisher, Unusual was called on to fabricate all the bracing and trussing.
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Company: Robert Juliat Location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia
fied with the Robert Juliats,” says Konic, “and are exploring further options in the Robert Juliat range with the view to increasing their stock still further.” National Theatre Nova Gorica is one more of a number of theatres in Eastern Europe to have been equipped with Robert Juliat products. The Teatrul de Arta Dramatica Deva in Romania has recently taken stock of RJ 611SX and RJ 614SX profiles and upgraded its dimmer system with the installation of Robert Juliat Tivoli dimmers. RJ Tivoli dimmers have the capacity of 150 memories and 250 programmable crossfades which makes them ideal for both theatrical and architectural use. The profiles and dimmers were supplied to the theatre by Robert Juliat’s Romanian dealer, DB Technolight SPL of Brasov.
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