Gdansk Shakespeare Theater lights up its productions with Robe

For your lighting, This theater in Poland has eleven teams Robe T1 Profiles that have become an essential element helping to enrich the experience of the shows in the busy venue.

Gdansk Shakespeare Theater (Gdańsk Shakespeare Theater) It is located in the center of the industrial port city of Gdansk, in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, opened its doors in 2014 and is built on the site of a 17th century theater, known as the Fencing School, where English traveling actors performed works of English Renaissance theater.

For your lighting, the theater has 11 Robe T1 Profiles that have become an essential element for all your predictions, explains the technical leader, Jòzef Leoniuk, and these pieces of equipment have helped enrich the experience of the lighting shows at the busy venue.

One of the main reasons why T1 profiles were selected, after a competition with other products, was its quiet operation and features like the excellent CRI, CT white range and refined dimming curve, as well as the support they receive from the Polish Robe distributor, Prolight, in Warsaw, and your local agent, Profit Group, a Gdańsk.

The theater also needed a device with shutters that accurately framed, since precise and effective lighting, The highlighting and the protagonists are vital to any Shakespeare narrative.

The main stage has 14 meters wide and 11 deep, with a height of 9 meters from the stage to the ceiling. There are three technical bridges on the stage and three on the audience, in addition to a series of embedded LX tubes and the T1 profiles change position according to the riders at the shows.

“They have been a great asset”, Jozef commented., who was previously in the lighting department and now leads a technical team of six people, and added that “everyone” is happy to work with the T1 profiles.

The most extensive functions (colors, gobos, animation and zoom wheels 7 a 49 degrees, etc.) They are also useful for other events that take place in the venue with capacity for 600 people sitting and a thousand standing. They also organize techno parties and jazz concerts., and a Shakespeare festival every summer in July.

It is a lively and dynamic space and “we appreciate this flexible lighting.”, Jozef points out and adds that “the T1s make the lighting process much faster and more fluid.”, It is very easy and pleasant to work with them”.

Besides, They are very compatible with existing tungsten sources with the CT target range between 2700 y 8000 K. “Robe has really addressed the needs of the theatrical market with the T Series and the Robe lighting ranges are also very good and cover multiple applications”, concludes.

Jozef observes more generally that Robe is “very well known, established and respected in Poland”, and first encountered the brand much earlier in his career while working as a lighting technician and operator at KLUB ŻAK, a vibrant and popular arts and culture center in the city center known as cinema, theater, cool bar and space hosting a lively mix of performances, music and events.