a theatrical device used for the hoisting and lowering of objects and scenery onto a theatre’s stage during a performance. Theatre on the Fly exposed these mechanisms which are normally hidden ...

When you next visit Plymouth Theatre Royal, take a close look at the set and scenery. There's every chance ... props can be flown and tried out on site. They are then moved to the theatre in ...

When Ethan McSweeny was asked to direct the show for the Shakespeare Theatre, he decided to go straight to the American heart of a British play set in Italy. “So we thought, ‘What if we really ...

Civic took over the theater in 1961. Williamson said the work removing the old system that serviced the theater was needed, but in some ways the changes were sad. The "fly system" of ropes and ...

There was no performance of “Captain Barrington” at the Murray Hill Theatre ... some of the scenery in use was made fire-proof like the rest. The management at once set to work, and by 7 ...

Despite their importance though, trained set and lighting designers are ... revealing in different ways the materiality of a stage production — sets, scenery, stage décor, costumes, actors.

A performer at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre died during an opera ... Yevgeny Kulesh went in the wrong during a set change and was crushed by falling scenery. Spectators initially thought it was ...

The Georgian Theatre ... was set up in 1811 by a former travelling actor - George Rivers Higgins. How and why the Woodland Scene became detached from the other pieces of Hinkins scenery is ...

The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow is set to reopen ... which has allowed a taller "fly tower" for moving sets and scenery to be installed. Although the Citizens was last open to the public in ...