Rooms designed to be remembered after the lights come back up.
Overview
Live production covering staging, motion, sound, and the run of show. An event is a piece of timing more than a piece of design, so the schedule gets the same scrutiny as the visuals.
Challenge
The previous year's show looked correct in every photograph and lost the room by minute forty. The design had been solved; the sequence had not, and no one owned the difference.
Our Approach
The run of show became the first deliverable, ahead of any staging. Everything was signed off from the worst seat before the best one, and every cue was given a manual fallback with a named person attached to it.
Outcome
A show that held its room end to end, with two cues taken manually on the night and nobody in the audience aware of it. Scale, contrast, and sound were set by the far corner, which is where most of the audience actually sits.
- Iris Coleman
- (Show Direction)
- Naomi Blake
- (Production Design)
- Felix Hart
- (Technical)
“Two things failed live and I only found out in the debrief. That is the whole review.”
Priya Raman,Head of Events
What's on04
Screening — The Long Room
Alliance Cinema, Addis AbabaPremiere and a conversation with the crew afterwards.
Uthiopia Open Studio
Kazanchis WarehouseThe room, the rigs and the work in progress, for one evening.
Type in the Wild
Goethe-InstitutA workshop on lettering that has to survive weather and paint.
Night Market Session
Sar Bet YardLive scoring against a projection wall, until the generator gives up.