Filtering by: TASIS England
Mar
9
to 14 Mar
Freelance Set Design, TASIS England, Freelance Lighting Design

Copacabana

I was hired by TASIS England to design, build and install the sign for their Copacabana show in March 2020. To fabricate the letters I decided the easiest course of action was to purchase MDF letters, pre-laser cut to ensure they all matched and were the same size. This was then followed by ordering several sets of festoon lighting and fabricating the holes, test fitting the festoon, painting and then reinstalling and fixing the festoon in place. The letters were then mounted to 2x1 with some structural bracing between the top and bottom. This was then flown in the theatre space and wired in, ready to be programmed into the show.

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Mar
4
to 9 Mar
Freelance Lighting Design, Freelance Set Design, Lighting, Lighting Design, TASIS England

The Wedding Singer

For this production I designed the lightbox door frames on the side of the stage. They consisted of wooden framing fixed to a scaffold back frame on which LED batterns were mounted. The front of the wooden box had a 3mm sheet of plexiglass fitted, covered in a layer of frost to diffuse the light from the batterns.

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May
29
to 30 May
Lighting, Sound, TASIS England

De-Rig and Prep for Upgrade

The rig upgrade for the theatre was a big step towards improving the lighting and flexibility in the Fleming Theatre space. This de-rig and prep for upgrade called for taking down all fixtures and temporary lighting, sound or power related infrastructure along with all theatre blacks and clearing the backstage area. Working with Jayne (Theatre Technician) is always a pleasure and working in a team to plan the order of operations and take apart the rig and other components in the theatre.

 

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Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mar
11
9:00 am09:00
Set Building, TASIS England

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The production of Thoroughly Modern Millie took place at TASIS England. I worked on the production of the get-in at the beginning of the production and the get-out at the end of the production. This involved bringing the set in from the workshop and assembling it on stage two weeks before the production over the weekend of the 24th of February.

Prior to the production we had moved and installed a rail on a sloped ceiling with a custom made mounting system to be able to ensure that the sliding doors at the centre of the set would function properly. The doors worked as planned and the rest of the flats went together successfully. The get-in also involved taking down some of the normal masking and moving other masking to ensure the backstage area was masked off properly.

The get-out of the production took place on the night of the last performance and the day after the production. It involved demolishing the set in such a way that the wood used to construct the set could be re-used at a later date along with re-installing the normal masking for the backstage area. This also included assembling some Steeldeck for a production the week after the musical.

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Alice in Wonderland
Dec
6
1:30 pm13:30
TASIS England, Rigging, Set Building, Lighting, Freelance Lighting Design, Freelance Set Design

Alice in Wonderland

For the Alice in Wonderland production at TASIS England  I worked with Jayne McTaggart (Theatre Technician) to assemble the set on the stage as well as rig and install all of the lighting fixtures which had been replaced with LED Par Cans along with the new ETC Lustr 2 Tungstens. Lighting installation took around a day along with set construction, stage painting and clearing also taking a day. I also attended the performance and subsequent set de-construction and de-rigging of the lighting equipment to return to SLX (UK Sound/Light Rental Company.

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Grease Musical
Mar
3
to 5 Mar
Sound, Rigging, Lighting, TASIS England

Grease Musical

The Grease musical was the last musical which I ran light and sound for at TASIS England. I ran and co-designed the lighting plot for the performance. This also included the rigging of all of the lighting equipment which consisted of a range of static fixtures, a couple of LED scanners, and a couple of Martin Mac 250+s and Martin Mac 300s. The show was run through an ETC Ion lighting board.

I also worked on the sound design which consisted of sixteen radio microphones for the actors and mainly oriented around controlling them through an analogue Allen & Heath PA28 passive sound board.

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