Blackout played a substantial role in staging the event, working for Robbie Williams Productions with production designers Stufish. Ala Pratt, designer at Stufish reports: "The Stufish design for the Queen Victoria naming ceremony stage invoked the luxury of a Victorian-style theatre. Blackout helped to create the atmosphere by providing drapes for the Royal and VIP areas, the main tabs plus the blacks, and gauze used for the final reveals.
"The red velour stage curtain was stencil painted with a gold lower border, and was inspired by great opera houses of the past. Blackout, with scenic artist Marie White worked with Stufish to achieve an elegant look for the application of this pattern. The main curtain was enhanced further by the movement that Blackout achieved with a tableau-style lift, in collaboration with automation provided by Stage One."
Blackout's MD Steve Tuck says: "We provided a complex and sumptuous set of plum velour drapes, all with 100% fullness, with plum and gold velour swags and tails to backdrop the VIP areas either side of stage, all the forestage area and for the stage main tabs. We also used a host of black wool serge drapes for stage masking and around the structure and seating blocks."
(Jim Evans)
