PHOTO BY PAVEL SLAVKO Figure 12. Backdrop Winches PHOTO BY AUTHOR Figure 13. Backdrop Change Figure 14. Elevator Machinery Figure 15. Wave Machine provide a flight across the entire stage. In the nineteenth century the roof over the theatre began to sag and a large beam was added to support the roof. This beam blocks the flying machine from moving across the stage. Lighting Although the stage and auditorium are now lit by electric candles, there are thousands of original lighting fixtures and holders at Cˇesk´y Krumlov. Both tallow and oil were used for stage lighting. Footlights (figs. 18 and 19) A footlight elevator is located on the proscenium line and is operated by a stagehand in the sub-stage area. The footlights are mounted on a long board that serves as the top element of a collapsing framework. Vertical supports connect the top and bottom elements to allow the unit to collapse like a parallelogram. A winch is used to pull the vertical supports to a nearly upright position moving the footlights to playing position. THEATRE 60 DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2007 Border Lights Two axles are mounted under the rafters in the center of the stage house (one is original). These axles are not currently rigged. Evidence suggests that they were used to raise and lower frames holding the border lights. The shields for the border lights still exist, but the border light frames have disappeared.10 No surviving Baroque theatres have movable border light frames, but frames for border lights are shown in Tessin's diary11 and in Diderot's Encyclopedia (Radel-Giraud 1772). Currently the borders are lit by several strings of lights running between the catwalks of the lower gallery. Wing Lights A board with lighting sconces hangs on the back of each upstage trolley. A lighting board is shown hanging on the proscenium door unit in figure 5. There are two hooks on the top of each board that allow the sconces to be positioned to shine in two different directions providing some degree