Well-known Italian manufacturer of professional lighting brands, PROLIGHTS, TRIBE and ArchWork (under the parent company Music & Lights) will be hitting our shores down under, thanks to their perfect fit with Show Technology! Music & Lights is an Italian professional lighting manufacturer who is driven by achieving an excellence in creativity, innovation and customer satisfaction;…
New Zealand’s Whangarei Theatre Company is a community theatre staffed mainly by volunteers. Located within The Riverbank Centre they produce three or four shows each year, with the majority being musicals. Lighting designer and operator Tayla Brittliff had been struggling with the Company’s decades old console and when she lost 72 hours of programming, she…
New Zealand’s West Otago Theatrical Society was formed in Tapanui in 1982, performing its first show in the old Town Hall, on the site of the present West Otago Community Centre which houses their theatre today. Through fund raising, they have transformed it into a venue suitable for any event – the theatre is complete…
Robert Juliat put Isaac Theatre Royal in the spotlight Christchurch’s Isaac Theatre Royal now houses three Robert Juliat Super Korrigan followspots, thanks to Hang Up Entertainment New Zealand, and Technical Manager Matthias Mard couldn’t be happier! The award winning Super Korrigan offer a light output which outperforms Xenon followspots of higher wattage, along with the…
Lighting designer Seth Giles will soon be leaving his New Zealand home for a 3 month tour in Europe with his MA Lighting International MA onPC command wing safely packed in his luggage. Although Seth has mainly been using his MA onPC command wing in his local theatre for small shows, it will soon be…
New Zealand’s TomTom Productions has a long history with Queenstown’s Winterfestival which has many sites for which they provide production. The main ones this year included The Bathhouse stage which hosted bands including Tiki, The Feelers and The Black Seeds, and was brilliantly furnished by snowflake Martin Professional VDO Sceptrons, and lit with Claypaky Mythos.…
The historical Regent on Broadway Theatre in Palmerston North, New Zealand, has switched to an MA Lighting International MA2 light console for lighting control and Technical Manager Shamus Jackson is both delighted and relieved! “I started working here last November and they had a Hog 3 which was really on its last legs,” said Shamus.…
Mike Farrand of MJF Lighting has had great satisfaction dragging the Royal New Zealand Ballet into the modern day by transforming their generic lighting rig to 80% LED, with the balance being tungsten from FOH position. MJF was recently awarded a four-year contract with the RNZB to supply their touring systems and Mike was on…