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Financial analysts conference Mermaid Theatre, London

	These pictures were taken on the last of a series of similar events at a variety of venues, before the client decided their own in house venue custom built.
This was a generic lighting based rig, supplemented with six Studio Spot 250s for gently moving gobo effects and static image projection. Source 4 zoom profiles covered the lectern, table and screen surround, while 1kW fresnels provided set wash and backlight. The show was run from a Wholehog 2, programmed by Tony Simpson and run by me.
	After some experimentation in the warehouse, it was decided that Lee 323 "Jade" would do the most justice to the unusual set colour. A range of other colours were taken on site as a precaution, but remained unused.

Footnote: The Mermaid Theatre, situated in Puddle Dock, London was opened by Bernard Miles in 1959, it’s huge Elizabethan stage (some eighty feet deep) was first constructed in 1953 at the Royal Exchange. The theatre was converted from a bombed Victorian warehouse and for many years was an important venue for revivals of Jacobean and Elizabethan dramas as well as contemporary productions. The last regular productions were staged there at the end of the 1970s and since then the theatre has had a number of new guises, hosting conferences like the one above and courses, as well as briefly providing a home for the RSC. However, despite Mayor of London, Ken Livingston’s intervention, it looks increasingly likely that the theatre will be demolished, as a part of a scheme to redevelop that stretch of the Thames' north bank and that the waters will soon close over the Mermaid’s head for good. No replacement venue is planned.