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Live
Royal National Theatre, London
"Here We Are"
year
2025
capabilities
Asset Coordination
Machinery Automation
Service & Support
Stephen Sondheim’s final opus opened at London’s National Theatre in May 2025. The show, which features the composer and lyricists’s legendary fast-paced lyrical patter, moves rapidly from scene to scene with the cast visiting a number of distinct locations as the surreal story unfolds.
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To achieve this, a number of set pieces are required to move swiftly and smoothly making up the locations for a series of dining episodes that define the first act’s zany comedy.
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The National Theatre’s own team was able to achieve the required automation using a set of TAIT BT2 winches and drive racks hired from our extensive stock of reconfigurable inventory, combined with the TAIT-supplied house control facilities that the National has available for every show using their extensive TAIT Navigator infrastructure for machinery automation. For this show the versatile winches operate in a multi-line lifting configuration.
Credits
Director
Joe Mantello
Set Design
David Zinn
Production Manager
Jim Leaver
Automation
National Theatre
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