Black Sequin of Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia
Australia - Held at North Melbourne Townhall, Black Sequin of Madeleine was written and directed by Jenny Kemp. Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia and its effect on a young woman and her family.

The Lighting designer for this sensitive production was Ben Cobham of Bluebottle, a design firm that worked collaboratively to achieve the best results.

"Whilst I was the lead designer I had a whole team of talented people working with me including Tom Rogers as assistant designer and he produced plans, concept drawings and looked after technical bump in," says Cobham. "Jen Hector looked after the design realization plotting the show - she is a long time friend and although not a full time employee, she comes to play from time to time. Frog Peck was production manger and Blair Hart was assistant production manager."

The lighting rig consisted of a total of 33 fixtures including incandescent strip integrated within the set, standard theatrical fixtures such as profiles, fresnels and a few scrollers and an ETC Source Four Revolution.

"It was a very simple rig which worked hard - a no fat approach which we like at Bluebottle," says Cobham.

Crucial to the lighting design was an ETC Source Four Revolution mounted above the large table situated down stage centre. "The ETC Source Four Revolution was shuttered very tightly," he said. "We could then use all the functions of this unit to produce several effects including strong colour shifts which were visible during the performance i.e. from red to green we saw the colour swipe from left to right. We also used it to crop particular parts of the table as required and to follow performers from above like an overhead dome. In summary we got one fixture to perform many tasks, lean and mean."

(Jim Evans)


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