White Light, the exclusive UK distributor for Robert Juliat, supplied three Super Korrigans to the show's lighting supplier, PRG. Faced with the need to have three centre spots to ensure even coverage of the show's puppets and puppeteers, the show's creative team needed spots that were compact and quiet enough to mount in the open behind the audience at the rear of the show's second circle level, and able to fold out of the way to allow the arriving audience to pass behind them.
White Light supplied a demonstration Super Korrigan 1200W HMI, 7-14.5 degree beam angle followspot to the Noel Coward Theatre. The unit was quickly found to meet all of the show's requirements including that for high levels of brightness; Ryan O'Gara, the show's associate lighting designer, decided that the unit was perfect for the show. In just a few days White Light then supplied three Super Korrigans to the production, installed by the show's lighting team led by production electrician, Pete Lambert. In order to minimise the running noise of the followspots during the show, and so minimise the distraction to the audience in that level of the theatre, White Light subsequently supplied three of Robert Juliat's push-pull colour-changers for the followspots.
The Super Korrigan, and its wider-angle sister, the 13-24 degree Lucy, join Robert Juliat's extensive range of followspots - the tungsten Cricket, Ginger and Alex and discharge Buxie, Manon, Topaze, Ivanhoe, Heloise, Aramis and Cyrano - that between them offer the perfect solution for just about any follow-spotting application. And later in the year these spots will be joined by a new member the Juliat family - a powerful model aimed at the largest venues. Already impressive in sneak-preview demonstrations, it will be unveiled on White Light's PLASA stand (G25), at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, in September.
(Lee Baldock)
