Serge Gountas
Technical Direction & Stage Automation

651 Summit St Apt P
Winston Salem NC 27101
609.439.3846
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Cabaret and Main
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Director: Christopher Ashley
Set Design: Michael Carnahan
Technical Director: Joel Brandwine
Associate Technical Director: Serge Gountas
This show opened the 50th anniversary season.  To give the show that cabaret feeling, we pulled the first 6 rows of seating to add cocktail tables, and built a small runway that protruded out in to the house.
All of the truss was built in house.  It is made of 1-1/2 Scehdule 40 pipe with 1" box tube web members.  The columns were built as individual units that sleeve to break around the platform unit.  The tops on these columns were each built as units and lifted in to place with chain motors.
Out in the house leno covered scrim panels were hung off the top truss.  Rigging lines were dropped through the ends of the panels and nico stops were used to place the panels in the right locations.
 
The decking was built in to steel platforms that were hoisted in to the air and assembled on the lower portion of the columns.  We decked over the structure and then continues to build the second story.