040 REPORT
THE GLOBE THEATRE
Company: Robe Location: Rome, Italy
The Globe Theatre in Rome is an exact replica of the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe venue in London, and like its English counterpart, is equally high profile in the Italian capital specialising in producing the works of Shakespeare. A recent upgrade to the lighting rig saw a major new investment in Robe LED mov- ing lights, which were specified by award winning Lighting Designer Umile Vainieri and delivered by Robe’s Italian distributor, Robe Multimedia. The new fixtures are eight Robe Robin DLX Spots, 12 Robe Robin LEDWash 600’s and two Robe DigitalSpot 7000DT moving projectors. Umile is a freelance LD who has worked regularly at the Globe since 2005 and also works on a host of other shows around the country and internationally. He was keen to get the fixtures installed at The Globe because he knew first hand that they would add “real production value” to the shows produced there, which are renowned for being of the very highest quality. He was also keen to get moving lights onboard to speed up the process of focus- ing and make it a lot easier to re-set between performances as well as producing more complex and sophisticated lighting shows than was possible to achieve just
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with conventionals. He specified Robe because it’s a brand he knows and trusts. He frequently uses Robe products on his various shows and has been an advocate of the brand for some time, especially since the launch of the Robin Series in 2009 and its ‘smaller-lighter-brighter’ philosophy. He feels this is what the market was waiting for. The new Robe installation at The Globe reduces the roof weight loading consider- ably, it’s now less than three-quarters of what it was previously. Other advantages are fewer dimmers, less cabling and of course, less power consumption and no lamp replacements needed for the LED fixtures. The other consideration - which Umile knew to be true - was that the Robe fixtures would be weather resistant and deal with environmental factors like humidity and heat in the open air. Creatively, the range of rich and proper CT whites produced by the fixtures was very important and the 3,200K tungsten variant is constantly used and ideal for enhancing faces and skin tones. Initially, not everyone at the Globe was convinced that the LED sources would
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