The Stage

White hall

Published Monday 16 November 2009 at 15:30

Lighting supplier, White Light, has played a key role in the creation of a new performance space within the Royal Albert Hall, the company providing a lighting, AV and technical infrastructure for the new, multi-function Elgar Room. Located on the west side of the Hall, and formerly known as the West Theatre, the room provided the original home for the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1906 until 1957. The £1 million renovation has transformed the room into a multi-purpose venue, the raised flooring removed to create one large space, the original floor-to-ceiling windows restored and with an audience capacity of up to 350 people. Ollie Jeffery, senior technical manager explains that they needed to create a lighting system that would give maximum flexibility for performance requirements, but without restricting the venue’s restaurant space. Among the equipment supplied by White Light was an ETC SmartPack wall-mounted dimmer rack with SmartLink outstation, plus two LSC five-way DMX splitters and an Avo Pearl console, plus a core lighting rig of six Vari-Lite VL2500 Spots, ten Chroma-Q Color Block 2 LED fixtures, six ETC Source Four Jr Zooms and six Selecon Acclaim Fresnels, the conventional fixtures all supplied with white finishes.