THR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Clips, Plough, Rigging
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Number one cause of death and injury in theater is walking/falling off the stage: director or an actor who can"t see in front of their costumes are the people this normally happens to. Number two cause of death in theater is rigging light fixtures and flats failures: falls on top of the person, increases during the this time of year because on temporary stages with. Rigging- raising and lowering things with a series of ropes or cables: rigging systems: Hemp system- first type of rigging system. Called hemp because they used hemped rope. Batten should be 1 diameter x sch. Black steel because readily available and cheap: pulley (aka block)- is a wheel that is grooved that the rope/cable rides inside of, also needs sides and an axel so the wheel will move. Function is to change direction of travel: the whole metal thing is called a block, loft block- a block in the fly loft.
