Sections · Section 06

Crews and Craft

Who makes the room work.

Riggers, stonemasons and the crews who strike a site overnight. Every room in this register only works because somebody calculated the loads, agreed the fixings and planned the calendar backwards from the last truck.

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    Riggers

    The people who hang the weight, the loading calculations behind it, and why a rig is signed off before anyone sings.

    Stage lighting rig with speakers mounted on a curved metal truss under a tented roof
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    Stonemasons

    Working a protected monument means conservation rules govern every fixing, and nothing may be drilled into Roman stone.

    A turbaned worker crouches on rocky ground, chiseling a stone slab with hammer and chisel
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    The get-out

    Striking a site overnight, and why the calendar is built backwards from it.

    A man wearing a backpack films with a camera near a stage under rigging lights