Peter Pan flies with Luz Studio and Robe

Montreal‐based Luz Studio, headed by Matthieu Larivée, was asked by producers Entourage to create a visual design for their staging of Peter Pan the Musical at the city’s Espace St‐Denis theatre in Quebec. Matt and his team set out to highlight the magic and drama of the story – which traditionally includes people flying – with lighting, video and scenic elements, ensuring a memorable experience for audiences of all ages. When it came to choosing the lighting, Robe was picked as the main brand to help bring Peter Pan’s dreams and energy to life, with Matt including 28 x FORTES, 42 x Tetra2s and 8 x LEDBeam 150s on the design, supplied to the St‐Denis production by SoftBox Integration.

Luz Studio also created all video content. Set, video and location of the different video surfaces, together with the flying rigging for performers, were all major starting points for lighting. It was important to keep the flying tracks as concealed as possible. Then with an LED pros arch and an LED screen upstage plus projection onto a downstage scrim and the scenic rim of the pros arch, it was vital that all the lighting could be tightly controlled and accurately focussed and shuttered. They needed highly flexible and multifunctional luminaires that also had plenty of effects and scope for refinement. Another major consideration was that the projections – beamed from two 40K machines positioned at FOH – were used to texture many of the set pieces onstage so it was really essential that light could be precisely targeted. With the front and rear LED screens positioned around 35 metres apart, all the lighting elements needed to be rigged into a tight semicircular wrap‐around space above the stage.

Robe is a regular go‐to moving light choice for Matt for specific shows and applications, and the FORTE / iFORTE series is his current favourite for key lighting and producing excellent skin tones.

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