White Light has enjoyed a busy start to 2010 in the world of theatre, the market in which the company first established itself.
Joining the company’s West End roster of shows in January were productions including Jerusalem, transferring from the Royal Court Theatre to the Apollo and lit by Mimi Jordan Sherin, The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick, lit by Jon Clark, and Six Degrees of Separation at the Old Vic, lit by Jason Taylor. The long-awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, is also currently previewing at the Adelphi with White Light supplying Paule Constable’s complex design; the show is due to open on March 9th. December was also a busy period for new shows, with the openings of The Misanthrope at the Comedy, lit by Peter Mumford, and the RSC’s Twelfth Night at the Duke of York’s, lit by Tim Mitchell.
These new shows join the many others that have chosen White Light as their lighting supplier, these include the plays An Inspector Calls, lit by Rick Fisher, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, lit by Mark Henderson, The 39 Steps, lit by Ian Scott, War Horse, lit by Paule Constable, and The Woman in Black, lit by Kevin Sleep, and the musicals Billy Elliot, lit by Rick Fisher, Chicago (Ken Billington), Dirty Dancing (Tim Mitchell), Grease (Mark Henderson), Les Misérables (David Hersey), Peter Pan at the o2 (Mark Henderson) and Sister Act (Natasha Katz).
White Light’s equipment can also be found on tours around the UK and, indeed, around the world, the company having continued its association with the current Eddie Izzard tour by supplying a large rig of EvenLED LED cyc lighting panels to the US leg of the show, suppling the lighting to a touring production of Grease in South Africa, and supplying the new touring production of Les Misérables, which opened in Cardiff before Christmas and which is now in Norwich .
White Light offers a full spectrum of lighting services – including lighting hire, sales, installation, service, training and more – not just to theatre, but to every area of the performing arts and entertainment industries, recent projects including everything from the European tour of Australian rock band Wolfmother to the new external lighting scheme at London’s Natural History Museum.
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