The Fugard Theatre, with performances by the Isango Portobello theatre company recently opened in the District Six area in Cape Town, South Africa. The theatre has been named in honour of Athol Fugard - and it’s not often that a theatre is named after someone in its lifetime. The “Train Driver”, written and directed by Fugard, had its opening night at The Fugard on 24th March, and is being met by … [Read more...]
Miss World 2009 meets grandMA and MA VPU
Miss World 2009 saw another spectacular lighting design by Tim Dunn, who used a grandMA full-size console to control nearly 300 intelligent light fixtures, plus LED and generic lighting, altogether totalling 12,600 DMX channels across 24 active universes. He also triggered video content stored on an MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) from the desk, which fed an upstage LED screen, 12 x digital moving … [Read more...]
The Market Theatre trusts in grandMA2
The Market Theatre Johannesburg, South Africa, made its choice of new lighting console after researching and testing the various options for nine months. In a cool historical connection, Dan Riley from DWR Distribution, was involved with the installation of the Market Theatre’s first desk - a Compact 80 - when he worked there as a technician in the early 1970s. Some 33 years later, he was more … [Read more...]
grandMA2 establishes itself in South Africa
The third grandMA2 introduction training session within the past two months was hosted at DWR Distribution in Strijdom Park, Johannesburg. The courses have become one of DWR’s greatest selling tools as once an individual understands what the grandMA2 is capable of and how simple it is to operate, they realize that there really is only one thing they’d like to see in their Christmas stocking. … [Read more...]
DWR runs MA training days
MA Lighting's South African distributor DWR Distribution ran the first of a series of grandMA Level 1 and 2 training events. The 3-day session took place at DWR's HQ in Johannesburg and was attended by working LDs and programmers who had to supply their own console or laptop running grandMA OnPC. … [Read more...]
