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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lying in the old maintenance building at 917 Memorial Drive is one of the strangest gifts the University has received: four truckloads of stage scenery donated by the New England Opera Company ...

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.