Theatre Hire

Technical Information for Hirers

 

Main Auditorium:

365 seats, raked. 3 Wheelchair spaces.
The KMT is a proscenium-arch stage with an apron covering the orchestra pit. No rake.
The floor is sprung wood, suitable for all dance.
Backstage crossover.
Stage heated.


Stage measurements:

Proscenium Opening: 9.14m x 4.42m (30’ x 15’)
Stage depth from Curtain Line: 6.7m (22’)
Apron Stage: 12.1m x 2.7m (40’ x 9’)
(with two proscenium entrances).
Prompt Side wing: 2.44m (7’6")
O.P Wing : 2.44m (7’6") with direct access to scene dock
Height of Grid: 12m (36’)
Counterweights: 28 sets, single purchase, 0.23m (8") apart.
Maximum permitted weight 250kg.
Maximum flying height: 10.97m (34’)
Safety curtain.
Orchestra Pit: 12,2m x 3m (40’ x 9’6")
Accommodates 26 maximum


Get In:

Get-In via street level into scene dock adjacent to stage.
Dock doors 1.52m x4.88m
(Limited parking for trucks alongside building)
 

Stage Equipment:
 

Red house tabs;
Various hard and soft black masking;
Tab tracks & runners in various colours;
Starcloth; firework cloth;
Selection of painted backcloths (mainly pantomime style).
2 single-phase 32amp independent circuits.
 

Pianos:


Bluthner Grand Piano (fully renovated 2000) on stage use only.
Knight Upright (1980 – but regularly renovated) for stage use only.
Roland electric piano with midi facilities. .
 

lighting:
 

Compulight DMX Spark 4D Board, 108 circuits 300A, 3 phase,
operated from control room or rear of auditorium.
No supply available for temporary board.
26 x Parcans,
12 x scrollers on parcans,
12 x Strand SLs,
12 x Patt 743s,
10 x Cantatas
8 x Starlits,
4 x T84s,
8 x ABDs,
12 floods ( 8 x 1k Coda),
6x 263/4
2 x Joliet followspots operated from control room.
Snow machines, smoke machines, haze machine.
 

Sound:
 

Yamaha LS9 Digital Mixing Console, operated from control room or rear of auditorium.
Harrison 16 channel graphic; Yamaha SPX900 (reverb unit) ;
Behringer Ultra-Curve; 4 x Bose 802 with controller,
2 x JF100 EAW, 2 Community wedges.
Microphones:
5 x SM58; 2x AKG SE300B; 5 x shotgun; 4x PCC160; 2 x Shure 4.1.
2 CD players. 2x Mini-Disc
Midi-player. Facilities for recording and editing.
Stage Management:
Prompt corner (Stage Left) 2 cue-lights (pit and flys);
Metro audio-can system to 8 outstations.
Show relay Tannoy backstage and front-of-house.
CCTV system available for pit and backstage uses.

 

Backstage:
 

5 dressing rooms (accommodating 6 persons each) and 1 chorus room (accommodating 15) on first floor.
Quick change room on ground floor.
Green Room with microwave, fridge, dishwasher, hot water boiler, water cooler, show video relay.
Stage Doorkeeper’s Office.
 

Wardrobe (Located FOH):


2 Electrolux industrial washing machines,
2 Electrolux industrial driers, steamers, etc.