Lighting, rigging and visuals rental specialist HSL are embroiled in a hectic 2016-17 pantomime season, supplying lights, LED fixtures and rigging including one Kinesys automation system to 20 different productions for leading panto producer QDos, being staged up and down the country! Some mind-boggling statistics include nearly 2000 intelligent lighting fixtures and over 500 generics, 100 … [Read more...]
Panto Madness for HSL
It has been another glorious panto season for HSL, supplying lighting for over 30 productions all across the UK predominately for premier panto producer, Qdos during the 2015 / 16 festive period, plus rigging and a Kinesys automation system for the largest show, Peter Pan at the 3000 seater Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow. Nineteen trucks packed with kit left HSL’s HQ in Blackburn, Lancashire – … [Read more...]
Oh Yes They Did! – HSL Supplies 21 Pantos!
Blackburn based lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting plus all necessary trussing and rigging for no less than 21 pantomimes across the UK during the 2014/15 festive season for premier panto producer, Qdos. Panto done well is a fantastically perennial English performance institution, and all the Qdos shows combine lively narratives with slick, fast-paced, quick-witted … [Read more...]
Robe is ‘Cat’s Whiskers’ in Lively Dick Whittington Panto
Panto is one of the most fun and also one of the most demanding genres of performance to light, requiring busy cueing, lots of bold and fast moving multiple scene and location changes and several touches of pure visual magic to help the action flow, all with simultaneous split-second timing … a challenge that Lighting Designer Andy Webb fully embraced for the Qdos production of “Dick … [Read more...]
