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Stadttheater Ingolstadt illuminates outdoor venues with Elation Proteus

The Ingolstadt Theater in Bavaria, Germany, is a classic playhouse that - like so many other theaters - had to adapt during the pandemic in order to stage plays during the summer. The prerequisites were good though; after all, the outdoor stage in the Baur Tower was already a firmly established open-air stage. Due to the pandemic however, capacity was reduced from 750 to 170 so a second outdoor stage was sought. It was found in the Reduit Tilly building giving space for a further 110 guests (instead of the usual 1,000).

The open-air stage in the Baur Tower recently presented “The Little Shop of Horrors”, while the musical piece “It’s Not Easy” was offered in the Reduit Tilly. Since the theater’s Great House is also under use and the technology available there is still needed, the lighting department looked around for rental alternatives. The requirements were clear: the luminaires should be weatherproof but also brighter than the indoor lights previously used, which had reached their limits under daylight conditions in the experimental open-air set.

The Elation Proteus Maximus was found as a suitable solution, and was to be supplemented with the also weatherproof Proteus Rayzor 760. All the Elation gear was supplied by the Motion Group of Fürth through Elation’s German distribution partner LMP.

The open-air Baur Tower theater was equipped with 16 Proteus Maximus and 21 Proteus Rayzor 760s. Six Proteus Maximus and five Proteus Rayzor 760s provide front light in an overhead electric. Another six Maximus (three units each left/right) are used for the alley lighting. Show light is realized using four Maximus, while 16 Proteus Rayzor 760s in the stage area are used for effects and back light. Some strobes, blinders and Pars complete the lighting equipment.

In the Reduit Tilly, however, only the weatherproof moving lights from the Proteus series are used - 18 Proteus Maximus and 26 Proteus Rayzor 760s. Eight Maximus - some of them elevated - are used on the stage alongside 16 Proteus Rayzor 760s. Ten Maximus and Rayzor 760s also work from the front electric.

(Photos: Stadttheater Ingolstadt/Jochen Klenk/Julian Zell)

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