Cue and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A last pic from ETC’s Cue conference this past weekend, waiting for Al Crawford to talk about his company, which lights, it seems, everything from weddings to Madison Square Garden (painting the whole of exterior with blue light in five days).

And then it’s back to life on the ground, where training on the Cobalt console fades into the background because we have 24 sort of 1k dimmers and a Leprecon hybrid board to light a show in a pavilion designed by an architect who apparently never realized that in a ‘theatre’ (says so right there on the concrete wall) you might want to provide some way to light a performer’s face. . .

Here’s part way through the hang yesterday:

A close-up of the ‘grid.’ Square pipes front and back that are slightly angled and are too bit large for non-standard c-clamps. . . You’ve be surprised how much is hung with plastic zip ties. . .

And the back wall of the set going in: