Category Archives: Green Theatre

Latitude Festival in Suffolk 17th – 20th July

Teaming up with London’s Arcola Theatre, Latitude are working towards a greener festival. We will provide state of the art low energy LED lighting and a Hydrogen Fuel Cell to power the stage in the Theatre Arena. For more information, … Continue reading

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Technical Forum on Tuesday 13th May 10.30am – 1pm

The Association of British Theatre Technicians and Ambassador Theatre Group are organising an event dedicated to environmental issues. A wonderful opportunity to network, share ideas and meet suppliers who are already producing energy efficient/environmentally friendly products and services. This event … Continue reading

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Theatre Materials/Material Theatres April 17-18, 2008

Conference at The Central School of Speech and Drama – University of London “What is the theatre made of? What is its matter, and what is the matter with it?” Sustainability will be a key theme of this conference organised … Continue reading

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Kit list for “an enemy of the people”

An enemy of the people, directed by Mehmet Ergen **** The Guardian **** The Independent **** The Times **** What’s On Stage **** Time Out Critics’ Choice “Far superior to the laborious spectacle the National gave us a decade ago. … Continue reading

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Lighting fit up for “an enemy of the people” – Power Saving

The show’s lighting designer, Michael Nabarro, writes:  The challenge was to light a naturalistic piece of theatre, a new translation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, using just five kilowatts of energy. The method employed on the previous show … Continue reading

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Kit list for “the Living Unknown Soldier”

The Living Unknown Soldier, directed by Sebastian Armesto Time Out – Critics’ Choice Living Unknown Soldier used the following (all on loan from White Light, except for the lighting desk supplied by ETC, and the house lights we bought): Stage … Continue reading

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Lighting fit up for “the Living Unknown Soldier”

The Fit up for the ‘Unknown Living Soldier’ took place on Sunday 10th Feb in the Arcola’s main Studio space. On the surface it hardly differed from any other fit up, same kind of crew, as far as I know … Continue reading

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Andy Downie’s work on LUS

As working Lighting Designers, faced with all the well know challenges of lighting in the Arcola’s main space, which of us would relish the extra challenge of limiting total power draw to 4.5kW? Even with the generous support of White … Continue reading

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The Low Energy Lighting Debate

There is much casual talk about how LEDS are the answer/rubbish. Clearly the truth is somewhere in between.  I think: LED lighting is good for some purposes Tungsten lamps will likely continue to be used for certain applications Fluorescent tubes … Continue reading

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