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Det Norske Teatret upgrades with Robe Esprites

Det Norske Teatret, one of Oslo’s liveliest theatres, has topped up the quantities of Robe Esprite moving lights for its 250-capacity flexible Scene 2 performance space, with the purchase of eleven Esprite Profiles, which join the fifteen Esprite PCs acquired in 2022.

The profiles are replacing the previous tungsten front lighting with an LED source. Det Norske Teatret’s Per Willy Liholm, the technical co-ordinator for Stage 2 and also a lighting designer, and Torkel Skjærven, the theatre’s head of lighting, worked closely together to choose the best new lighting solution.

As Stage 2 only has one designated lighting technician, they needed a fixture that was light enough in weight to be a safe one-person lift, which is possible with the Esprite. The new lights were supplied by Robe’s Norwegian distributor Prostage and installed just ahead of the new season.

It was another step in the ongoing mission to eventually replace all the tungsten light sources with LED. For the moment, some tungsten lights will be kept going as many theatre LDs still like to use them. “One day, those old luminaires will become the effect lights of the future”, states Skjærven.

The theatre works with a range of internal and external lighting designers on all their productions, most of which are fully produced in house by the Det Norske Teatret creative team. The program embraces a range of theatrical genres, including musicals and new, classic and contemporary Norwegian and European drama, presenting approximately twenty new shows a year and attracting around 260,000 visitors in that same timeframe.

(Photos: Ole Herman Andersen/Siren Høyland Sæter/Det Norske Teatret)

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