Birmingham Library Theatre - technical specification

Stage

Maximum dimensions stage width 9.6m; stage depth 6.3m; over-stage clearance 5.4m
Drapes green travellers across back wall; green travellers on ros; line 3.1m from front edge of stage; both sets of travellers operated by hand winch SR; black legs 2m wide cover offstage space SL and SR. Backstage crossing through dressing rooms.

Backstage

There are two dressing rooms opening off USL and USR with connecting door between the two. Each has wash hand basin and toilet. A third room is above, accessed via cat ladders SL and SR. No dressing tables. Artificial light only. there is no access between backstage and front of house except through the auditorium. No laundry or wardrobe facilities.

Stage lighting

4 bars (1 front of house and 3 overstage) and 4 booms (1 pair front of house and 1 pair apron). Zero 88 Lightmaster XLS 23 channel, two preset manual and memory board. 24 dimmers. All dimmers 2kw. Three phase supply. 63A supply to each rack of 6 dimmers. 36 circuits 12 hardwired, 24 patchable to the remaining 12 dimmers. All sockets 15A. Supply to racks 2 and 3 is via 63A Ceeform sockets which enables the connection of portable lighting systems. 23 lanterns 12 x Prelude F, 3 x Quarter F, 6 x Prelude 16/30, 1 x Prelude 28/40. Colour frames for all lanterns. 8 x barndoors. No irises or gobo holders. No gel available. Access to bars and perches by A-frame ladders..

House Lighting

There are two sets of auditorium lights, both switched from the control box. The fluorescent strip lights can be dimmed. The tungsten downlighters cannot be dimmed.

Sound

Denon DRS 610 cassette deck; Mynah 12-2-1 sound mixer; microphones are available. Maj Electronics SL1000 power amp (feeding auditorium speakers with mono signal only). Two pairs of Philips PA speakers in auditorium. 5 x SLR microphone sockets onstage (1 & 2 SL, 3 & 4 SR; 5 both SL & SR) to mixer. No speaker or tie lines. There is a show relay to the control box. A paging microphone at the mixer position allows the control box to speak into the auditorium. No coms or Q light systems. No internal phone link between control box and backstage

Audio Visual

35mm slide projector, 16mm cinprojector and video monitors available. Projectors operate from control box.

Auditorium

The 254 seats are in 10 rows on a rake. See Seating Plan. Two front of house mixing/production tables are available.

Please note there are no technical staff available.

Get In

Access for loading and unloading is via Margaret Street and is strictly by appointment only. The get-in is up an external, open flight of stairs (1.6m wide) with two half landings and a 90turn at the top to double doors (1.4m wide x 1.95m high), which open immediately into the auditorium at the SR side of the stage. The stairs are lighted at night. Access to the control box is up a spiral staircase from the foyer (0.6m between handrail and central post).

Audience

Two wheelchairs places available, one at either end of row F. Disabled toilet in the foyer. There are no facilities for the hearing-impaired.

Performers

No wheelchair access to the stage. The backstage toilets are not wheelchair accessible.