Soldaat van Oranje marches on with Chauvet
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Audiences are treated to a multi-sensory, immersive experience at this unique venue, as they sit in comfortable movie-theatre seats in the auditorium that rotate from scene to scene. The different sets feature an array of special scenic elements that includes parts of an actual airport runway, a beach with real sand and water, two fully functional motorcycles, and a 1940s vintage Dakota C46 airplane.
Adding to the transformative experience is the theatre’s newly re-imagined lighting system that features Chauvet Professional Ovation B-2805FC and Ovation B-565FC colour-mixing fixtures, supplied by PRG Netherlands. Lighting technicians Gijsbert Stalenhoef and Joris Visée, in cooperation with technical manager Tjitte Meijer and PRG’s Mark van der Werff, installed 36 of the Ovation B-2805FC battens and 15 of the Ovation B-565FC static wash lights to replace the 116 fluorescent fixtures that had been used to light the theatre.
In addition to increasing the energy efficiency of the theatre’s lighting system, the RGB-Amber-Lime LED Ovation fixtures enrich performances at the theatre, thanks to their realistic color rendering. “The Ovation fixtures are a great replacement for the fluorescent strip lights,” says Stalenhoef. “There's so much more depth to the set pieces now. The texture on walls and costumes really pops - and we still only run the Ovations at about 30% capacity because they're so bright.
“As far as the colour rendering of the Ovation fixtures is concerned, their impact on our show has been amazing,” continues Stalenhoef. “For example, our lighting can now closely match an original scene in which a leading character arrives on stage flustered and out of breath. We did this by adding some extra red to the overall colour, just up to the point where you couldn't tell it was there, but when the character turns to face the audience, the light department were amazed at how much redder and more exhausted his face looked.”
(Jim Evans)
