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Robe’s Tarrantulas installed at Dramatic Theater in Warsaw

The new Robe Tarrantula wash beams are part of the house lighting rig for the Teatr Dramatyczny m. st. Warszawy (Dramatic Theater of the capital city of Warsaw). There are two performance spaces - ‘Big’ and ‘Little’ stages - at the Palace of Culture, and the company also runs programmes in two other buildings around the city.

These four stages offer a busy schedule of modern, classical and new works. Each space stages between ten and twelve shows a year, primarily their own productions. Mateusz Karon, deputy of technical manager, oversees all things technical in the main Dramatic Theatre building and creates new lighting specs as and when they are needed.

The decision to choose the Tarrantulas - delivered directly by Robe’s Polish distributor Prolight - was a collective one made by Karon and the Dramatic Theatre’s lighting crew in consultation with some key individuals including deputy technical director Mariusz Guglas and lighting designer Ewa Garniec. The Tarrantulas are the first Robe fixtures to be permanently installed in the building. Before this, LED wash lights were regularly sub-hired.

One of the first productions to use the new Tarrantulas was ‘Kinky Boots’ - music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper - which was lit by Lukasz Rozewicz (former head of lighting at the Dramatic Theatre, who is now technical director and LD at Mazowsze, the traditional Polish folk dance company). However, the very first production to be entirely based around the Tarrantulas was ‘Princess Turandot’, which premiered in September and was lit by Ewa Garniec.

Pictured: Mateusz Karon. (Photos: Louise Stickland)

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