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Corona: Robe illuminates Peachy Playhouse  

Like many individuals passionate about the live events and performance industry, Philip French of Aldershot, UK-based rental and technical production company Peachy Productions, was badly missing shows, gigs, and the camaraderie of delivering live events.

He decided to proactively do something about it, and with the support of the Surrey Event Professionals, headed by Hannah Sheppard, the Peachy Playhouse was born. It offers two weeks of socially distanced, drive-in, Covid-compliant live entertainment, comedy, music, film and children’s shows designed to appeal to all sectors of the community, staged at Loseley Park near Guildford, Surrey.

Providing the full technical production - staging, lighting, sound, and video - plus crew, Philip French and lighting designer Jared Greenall chose an all-Robe moving light rig of Pointes and LEDBeam 150s. With a capacity for 50 cars, each vehicle is allotted its own bay with its own park bench seat and enough room for visitors to also set up their own tables or picnics as they wish. Full on-site catering is delivered by The Tipsy Pigs from their mobile kitchen setup. Guests order from a selection of options via the Peachy Playhouse website, and have their orders run out directly to their car bays.

French, his partner in the company, Ryan Howard, and their team installed one of their 10-metre-wide by 9-metre-deep Milos stages which has a small cantilever at the front and a forestage in front of that. A 3.9 mm pitch LED screen is rigged just in front of the stage mouth leaving the forestage as the main performance space.

Twelve Pointes, 18 LEDBeam 150s and 16 LEDBeam 100s are rigged in the roof and on the stage deck. Other lights on the rig include LED battens and active Sunstrips, together with the movers, all controlled from an Avolites Titan Touch console. The sound system is a D&B line array onstage, and each car bay has its own 100 V line speaker, a solution that connects via standard 16 A Cee-forms cabling.

The backstage areas include a green room marquee from Inside Outside Marquees for the talent and a covered technical area with everything - including the kitchen - running on a synched set of 100 KVA generators from Flying Hire. Between the original planning and the realisation of the event, the government guidelines on social distancing also changed so groups of up to 30 people can congregate in one place.

(Photos: Louise Stickland/Charlotte Wilson/Robe)

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