His design-based approach has gained him a lot of work in the genres of theatre, musicals and opera – from runs at specific venues to touring productions - an active and buzzing scene in a country with a performance-loving population. Many productions circling the country will have a semi-professional cast and a professional technical crew and a typical touring run lasts around 6 weeks and visits...
In the theatre world, Robe’s highly refined DL series of LED luminaires - built for the theatre and performance sector - bring all the advantages of LED technology combined with the accuracy, finesse and quality that theatre professionals demand. Robe has listened carefully to all these requirements in order to perfect the DL series, with super-smooth dimming curves, silent running, excellent...
Between all the venues and galleries, nearly 1700 cultural events are staged there annually, plus over 900 congresses, altogether attracting over 500,000 visitors to the Slovenian capital … so things are hectic! Cankarjev Dom also owns over 100 Robe fixtures and has just boosted its stock with the latest purchase of six Pointes and six more LEDWash 600s. This brings the current LEDWash 600 total...
The setting for Jacqui Honess-Martin’s new festive tragi-comedy is a Christmas tree retailer and the action spans a month over December from early morning to midnight. The witty and incisive narrative incites laughter and tears as a group of 20-somethings from mixed backgrounds and experiences sell Christmas trees from a street outlet … along the way singing all those gloriously clichéd Christmas...
Andy immediately thought of Robe again after pioneering the large scale use of LED moving and static lighting luminaires in commercial panto for ‘Dick Whittington’ last year at High Wycombe, when he was approached to light another popular fairy-tale story laced with slapstick humour, hi-jinks and audience interaction. One of the classic references to this Brothers Grimm story is the 1937 Disney...
Lighting is designed by Michael Sevholt, the venue’s technical manager, and a partner and founding member of Kulturtuben, who has included eight Robe DL4S Profiles and 14 x LEDWash 300s in his rig. After reading the script, he realised that he needed moving head profiles to effectively key out the actors and also a moving wash light for illuminating the musicians located on a platform that changes...
Equity claims to be “the only organisation able to work with managers to improve stage directors’ and designers’ pay and conditions of work”. Despite our members sitting on various Designers' committee in the last 15 years, there has been no discernable increase in minimum fees for lighting desgners in UK theatre, despite a huge change in the way that we work.
The theatre, that produces over 1000 works a year across eight dynamic performance spaces, is the national theatre for spoken drama and was founded in 1788 and has occupied the current, majestic art nouveau building designed by architect Fredrik Lilljekvist on the waterfront at Nybroplan since 1908. The theatre has many claims to fame including legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman who was its...
The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) Theatre judging panel has announced its eagerly anticipated shortlist for this year's ceremony, which will take place at London's glamorous Troxy club on Sunday 4th October.