Theatre Rigging 

had a 5l bottle of haze fluid dropped on my shoulder from a 3rd story gantry in a gap between shows while mixing monitors once 8 years back.still causes pain till this day still work audio/lighting/fly op but my rigging licence expired and i stopped chasing that side of the industry, thanks for a great video.

The theater at my high school back in 2007-2008 had a fly house like that and I remember rigging and working curtains. I miss doing that stuff sometimes. I will say the Bridge was way scarier to me than the fly house and walking on the ribbons. The bridge we had was over the seating area and was nothing more than a catwalk suspended by wire above the drywall ceiling. made me sweaty every time.

I always wanted to get into this but never know how sadly espeially where I live its hard to get this kinda work

I know literally nothing about rigging. But I'm hoping to start picking up extra work with a production company soon. This video is a really cool glimpse into the spaces that very few people get to see. Thanks for this.

This is a really old 'manual' flybar system for those of who are wondering. Good for them biceps! But check out automated systems!

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When this was installed, how did the rigging crew know that the grid deck would safely support the load? It appears that whatever was being supported by this installation was being carried by 4 points, but are those points attached to the grid and designed to be load bearing? I'm just starting to learn this stuff, and these are the types of things I think of when I see this, so it's a genuine question.

The pipes that fly in and out on the fly rail system are also called battens. So be aware of that should any confusion occur

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I find theatre ladders more tiring because of the cage around its like crawling in pipe, vertically

I was hoping he was going to show us what he let down. You will not find me up there. I have been up about that same height on a side, but quickly decided it was not for me. The theater in question did not have the ribbons in place. I was on a theater tour and they offered a few of us the chance to step out on the edge of a side where tie off's for ropes ended. As a friend of a band that does national tours and hire riggers like these in every city, these guys get a lot of respect from me. As a former volunteer fire fighter, I have been in high places. Still don't like it though.

I'm just a sound guy, the most I know about rigging is hearing someone shout "Heads"

Are you rigging the theatre or packing away?

I'm not understanding how that little piece of string tied around the end of the pipe up in the battons is going to prevent that cable from sliding off the pipe if it's vibrating enough to spin sideways.

please do another theatre video

I was hoping you would go higher.