Fig. 6. Rick Peeples. Lighting Assistant at the Payne Theatre's Kliegl Q-Level 2000 Memory System. Armstrong. It is impossible for me to evaluate the acoustical effectiveness of this outer proscenium, but I can testify that it has provided an excellent facility for apron staging and the overall acoustical results are outstanding. Certain modifications are being made in the air-handling systems which produce an audible sound of moving air at the present time. Nonetheless, the acoustic quality of the house for the opening performances of Hamlet and Rosenerantz and Guildenstern are Dead was excellent and promises to be near perfection when the work is complete. Front-of-house lighting is provided by three easily accessible beam positions wh ich are connected to six side slots located above the house entrance doors nearest the stage. Large self-masking doors in the front proscenium splay provide two more house lighting positions for side light across the apron. Lighting and sound control are located in the rear of the house above the last row of seats and offer an excellent view of the stage and an ideal position for follow spots or front projection equipment (Figure 6). Lighting control consists of two Kliegl systems. The first is a manual tWO-5cene pre-set with sub mastering which can be located either in the control booth or on stage while the second is a Kliegl O-Level 2000 memory system with 108 7KW Dimmers. The 415-20 amp and 16-50 amp load lines are interfaced with the control consoles by means of a telephone patch located on the second level of the theatre with easy access from either the stage or control booth. 12 WINTER,1976 Photo by Frank The sound effects system consists of a modified recording studio mixing console with eight inputs (with full equalization!, each assignable to any or all of the four output channels. Each output channel can be fed to any or all of the eight 1 OO-watt Altec power ampl ifiers which in turn can feed any of the 11 Electro-Voice Sentry III speaker systems, eight of which are mobile and can be placed vi rtually anywhere in the house or stage house. The stage house is provided with a completely trapped stage as well as provision for counterweight, hemp and motorized flying. While it would be desirable to have more offstage space on the right side, site limitations precluded further extension of the stage house in this direction. In an attempt to help solve this problem the locking rail for the 57 counterweighted sets of lines was placed thirty feet above the stage floor to eliminate the need for working space for a flyman at stage level. The single purchase system tension blocks are protected by a wire and steel screen which allows scenery storage on stage right. A hemp pinrail is located at the same thirty foot elevation on the stage left side of the stage house (see front cover). Two side light bridges and a full stage cyc of filled scrim are flown by single-speed motorized winches (Figure 7). Four 4-line spot line sets in the main stage house and one on the forestage grid have also been provided. The grid is rigged with all loft blocks underhung from above to free the grid floor for access and spot line rigging of either hemp or motorized sets. Electrical outlets may be provided on any of the working sets of lines by means of 18 cable reels mounted on the grid floor THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY I USITT ,