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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Image Provided by Marc Brenner
Image Provided by Marc Brenner
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.
Image Provided by Marc Brenner
Image Provided by Marc Brenner
Image Provided by Marc Brenner
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.
