Backstage Warehouse

After several months of talks with the client, we were received the drawing of the chandelier and developed plans to make the flame effect for the scene in Great Expectations of the Miss Havisham's house setting alight.

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Once the go ahead was given, we used our in-house Plasma cutting machine, cutting out the templates for the 4 arms of the chandelier. Each arm was attached to a central 50mm tube that will create the look at the chandelier. This tube also had a second function as storage for the propane gas that incorporated a straight 5 metre long metal gas tube to the flying bar at the theatre. We then had a 25 metre flexible gas hose that went along the fly bar to the ground to where the gas is stored and the operater was situated. Operation is done through a custom system of solenoids and ignitors. We used a Magic FX Effectivator 1 as the controller, as this allow safe isolation by the means of a key switch.

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On the day of the install, working in a time restricted space due to the essential work to get the show up and running ready for the technical plot, we out of hours to install the chandelier, and provided full demonstrating of it on operation

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We also provided 6 Flame Torches and two Antari Low Foggers to be used throughout the production.

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