XL Video supplies projection and playback equipment to ‘Woman in White’

XL Video is supplying all projection and playback equipment to the new Andrew Lloyd Webber production, ‘Woman in White’, showing at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End.
XL’s Malcolm Mellows worked closely with projection designers Sven Ortel and Dick Straker of Mesmer to realise the ambitious technical requirements needed for video designer Bill Dudley’s ideas to come alive onstage.
There’s been plenty of positive comments, including the projection being described as “Impressive” and opening up “new possibilities in the marriage of theatre and cinema” by Michael Billington in The Guardian.
Taking the concept of video scenery to a new dimension, the whole show’s settings, locations and backdrops are projected onto a 30 metre wide by five metre high cylindrical projection surface. At certain points, the side sections of the screen track all the way around the stage to form a surface across the front. A section of the screen also splits off from the main structure for several more intimate scenes, and tracks into the central stage revolve, complete with its own set of video projections.
Mesmer was asked onboard after working with Dudley on previous video projects including ‘Coast of Utopia’, the award winning ‘Hitchcock Blonde’ and the controversial David Hare creation ‘Permanent Way’. Lloyd Webber had apparently seen Coast of Utopia and wanted to develop a strong video content for this next production.
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