Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

182 Chapter 6 The Director
30. Tech Tables. Other work tables are set out in the
audience so lighting, sound, and scene designers can
set and adjust cues as the actors “stop and go” through
the play during two ten-hour technical rehearsals. In
the foreground, Electrics Director Scott Palfreyman,
at his table, talks to the stage manager through
his intercom system. At the tech table in front of
Palfreyman, Sound Designer Jankens readies his cues;
other tech tables are to his left and right. Onstage, a
crew member tapes the rough edges of a temporary
wooden rail that represents a brass railing that has not
yet been finished in the scene shop. © Robert Cohen
31. Setting Light Cues. At their tech table, Lighting
Designer Boulmetis (foreground) and Assistant
Lighting Designer Pasquini communicate by intercom
with the stage manager, light-board operator, and
follow-spot operators, while establishing and timing
out the more than three hundred light cues that are
to be executed in the production. © Robert Cohen
32. Follow-spot. Lighting Technician Cristine White
operates one of the production’s two follow-spots,
lighting instruments that are hand-positioned by their
operators to follow one or more actors as they move
about the stage—or, in this production, up and down
the theatre aisles. © Robert Cohen
33. Gobos. These oddly named devices are filters placed inside lighting instruments to
create patterns that can be projected onto floors and walls to give added texture—
to create the impression, for example, of moonlight shining through leafy trees.
During technical rehearsal, these gobo-produced patterns will be added to the
lighting of a nighttime interlude. © Robert Cohen