Oracle Computers
sales conference
Savil Court (a.k.a The Anougraha)
A fetching, but notoriously difficult
venue to work in. Many problems were solved immediately when
the production company commissioned a custom-built thirty-eight
foot circular truss to fit this unique location. The simple,
majestic set design featured a rear cyclorama fronted by three
'sails' made from Trevira cloth. With it's translucent, satin
texture, this proved to be a wonderful material to light.
Parcans on the FOH side of the
circle laid three colour washes onto the stage. These colours
were complimented with sidelight focussed behind the screens
and again in groundrows uplighting the cyclorama. Further colour
was added by eighteen Martin Robocolour 400s uplighting the sails
from the front and the rear. This colour was generally copied
by twelve MAC 500s, which added slowly shifting defocussed gobo
effects to the overall look.
These effects, combined with the
rippling of the Trevira in the local air currents, produced a
slow, gentle, wave-like motion across the whole set, which proved
to be very relaxing to look at. It's just a shame I can't reproduce
it here.
