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Robe LEDBeam 150s for Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre

The Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, has five performance spaces plus a garden, which is also used for shows, and is located in the Rondebosch suburb on the edge of the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus. It is the city’s second largest performing arts venue - after the Artscape Theatre Centre - and has a vibrant programme embracing drama, dance, music and other genres of live theatre and performance.

The theatre has invested in Robe LEDBeam 150s fixtures - supplied by the Cape Town branch of Robe’s distributor DWR - following a decision by the technical crew and the venue’s production manager Marisa Steenkamp. The fixtures are constantly in active use across the different show and rehearsal spaces, helping facilitate the theatre’s diverse production schedule, which includes the annual Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival showcasing upcoming local talent. Many of their own produced shows also go on to tour internationally.

Benny Arendse from the tech crew explains that before they bought their own LEDBeam 150s, fixtures would sometimes be rented in if required, as was the case for a production of “Othello” lit by Patrick Curtis last year. It was after this that they decided to buy their own. There are also some older Robe products in the house - two 600E Spots and four 600E Washes - which were among the Baxter’s first moving lights, and more recently, they invested in five Robe Spiider LED wash beams.

Pictured (left to right): Baxter Theatre’s Franky Steyn, Julian Baeties and Benny Arendse. (Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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