New Court Theatre - Christ's College
About the venue
Located in Typewriter Building, New Court at the back of Christ's College. Most of its productions are funded by Christ's Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS).
The space is also used twice weekly (Thursday and Sunday) by Christ's Film Society.
Rehearsals
The room can generally only be booked by Christ's students for CADS productions. It is also used by several other societies and individuals, so time may be limited.
Technical information
The stage is fairly small, approximately 6m across and 3m deep. It can be extended using rostra decking, usually kept in or by the store cupboard.
It can be hidden by electric curtains before the performance starts. Switches for this are found both at the side of the stage and in the tech box.
Raked seating for audience, very roughly 100 seats.
There is a small dressing room on stage left. Unfortunately, although there is a black curtain at the back of the stage, there is not enough room behind it for use as a practical get-round, which can cause blocking issues.
Nearby car park has the CADS store cupboard, and offers limited set-painting and set-building opportunities: high probability you will be warned of the risk of any drop nails causing punctures.
Lighting
CADS possess a fair number of lanterns, mostly antiquated. 6 Patt 743 1kW fresnels are most useful (at least two are generally used for front-light), also 9 Patt 123 (bomb) 500W fresnels and 4 Patt 23 profiles. More recent purchases include two parcans and two Strand Quartet profiles.
18 channels are available, controlled by Strand
LX 18-way 2 preset manual desk.
Rigging positions:
2 IWBs above stage, each 12-way
2 bars upstage of IWBs (currently with no adjacent patch points)
2 bars running US - DS with 12 sockets
Also a collection of ground sockets: 3 sockets on upstage wall, 4 15A sockets in dip-trap, 3 sockets on ridge at rear of auditorium.
The
lighting desk is a Strand 200 - capable of 2 state preset, submaster and scene operation
More information can be found at [
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/cads/lighting.html].
Sound
The tech box's
sound equipment is mostly owned by FilmSoc, which can cause problems - it is worth speaking with FilmSoc and making arrangements in advance, especially regarding the amp and speakers.
The CD player in situ is of poor quality, and very unreliable at skipping between tracks. It is generally better to bring replacement source.
CADS own two microphones, and there is permanent cabling linking sockets at the stage to the tech room.
Last edited Mon 16th Nov 2009 by Stuart Moore
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