theatre Big Designs for a Little Theatre Everyone is looking to reduce their energy consumption, either to reduce costs or their carbon footprint or both. And there are grants available from organisations like the Energy Saving Trust to achieve this. Working with a local community theatre, we knew we could benefit
techbodgery Pi Prompt Corner Display Another in the #techbodgery series on using technology (on a budget!) to deliver features typically usually found in big venues to smaller theatres and entertainment venues. Today, we visit Prompt Corner, and look at how to make our SM (Stage Manager)'s life a
theatre What a bunch of amateurs. "We're not «insert big theatre name here»" or, why shouldn't amateur theatre strive to be as good technically as the pros?
qlab QLab HTTP Trigger This is a quick (and rather dirty!) hack to trigger cues in QLab by an HTTP request, I wouldn't recommend using it in a production environment.
theatre (Re-)Opening the House I am not an epidemiologist, just someone with a good understanding of risk assessment and generally pragmatic approach putting a few personal thoughts out there on re-opening some of the things we love aiming to provoke discussion, here I look at theatre and how we can safely return.
qlab On-Stage Telephone Ringing with QLab There is an excellent article in the QLab cookbook for how to simulate a ringing telephone in QLab - and it's far better than playing back a simple sound effect. However, sometimes you can't beat an actual phone. Indeed, even in TV and film,
lx Eurobeat: Moldova! I have provided voting for numerous (almost 20 now!) productions of Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision and am pleased to announce that one again I am providing the voting for the new professional production of Eurobeat (and the visuals are looking better than ever!) And the