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Drama Donmar Style - in the West End's Wyndham's
White Light has announced its appointment as lighting supplier for the Donmar Warehouse's star-studded season of drama at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.
Designed to bring Donmar productions to a larger audience than can be accommodated in the company's own 250-seat Covent Garden venue, the Wyndham's season, which re-opened the newly refurbished theatre, features four productions: Ivanov, starring Kenneth Branagh; Twelfth Night, starring Derek Jacobi; Madame de Sade, starring Judi Dench, and Hamlet, starring Jude Law, over the course of a year.
Lighting duties for the shows, the first three directed by the Donmar's artistic director Michael Grandage and the last by Kenneth Branagh, are being divided between two of the Donmar's most frequent lighting collaborators, Paule Constable lighting Ivanov and Neil Austin the remaining three shows. The two have designed a common core rig to serve all of the shows, White Light supplying the season with eleven 1K Fresnels, eight 2K Fresnels, one 5K Fresnel, thirty-two CP62 PAR cans, eleven L&E Battens, fourteen Selecon Pacific Zoom profile spots, and twelve ETC Source Four 26° profile spots along with eight Rainbow Pro colour scrollers. Additional Source Fours have been purchased for the season to subsequently become part of the Donmar's in-house stock.
Completing the rig are six Martin TW1 moving washlights, and four ADB Warp moving spotlights, these newly added to White Light's hire stock for the Donmar season.
Working with the lighting designers on the Wyndham's season are production manager Pat Maloney and production electrician Stephen Reeve.
The first play in the season, Ivanov, opened triumphantly in mid-September, with The Independent's Paul Taylor calling particular attention to "Paule Constable's exquisite lighting that presents the first act's evening as a honeyed haze and Ivanov's den as a 19th-century French painting illuminated from above through a grimy, leaf-clogged skylight," before pronouncing the show a "must-see". Twelfth Night, the season's second show opened on the 5th December and will remain until the 7th March 2009.
17th December 2008
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