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Den Bosch’s Theater aan de Parade favors Robe

Theater aan de Parade, a new entertainment and meeting hub in Den Bosch, Netherlands, has installed over 200 Robe products in the house lighting rigs of its two principal performance spaces - the 920-seater Casino Hall and the Plein Hall, which accommodates 400 people. The new venue sits on the footprint of the previous 1976 theatre building, which replaced the original one built in 1934.

The Robe product count breaks down to twenty-three T2 Profiles, eighty-three T1 Profiles, eleven T1 PC, eighty LEDBeam 350s, three TX1s, twelve Cuete Spots, fourteen Tetra2s, which are used as cyc lighting, and four RoboSpot BaseStations with MotionCameras.

All of this was supplied via Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux, together with a number of other lights that completed the specification, plus control and networking infrastructure. Controllux’s project and sales lead Kuno van Velzen started work on this installation in 2022.

Theater aan de Parade stages over 300 performances annually from numerous visiting companies, plus an array of festival and business events, explains head of technical, Alphons Verhallen, who oversees a tech crew of sixteen. Having a multispectral LED fixture at the core of the house lighting systems - as opposed to a white LED source - was a cornerstone of the lighting tender, he adds.

The T1 and T2 Profiles are located on the lighting bridges and over-stage bars in both halls. Seven of the T1 PCs are rigged on the Casino Hall portal bars and four on LX2 in the Plein Hall, where they are providing wash capabilities, with the TX1s also used overhead in this space.

The LEDBeam 350s are multi-use fixtures and, among other things, replace six-bar moving PAR light effects in both halls. The Tetra2s are used for cyc and effects lighting in the Plein Hall, especially for bands, concerts and music shows, together with the Cuete Spots, which are in this same location. The RoboSpot systems are usually used with the T1 Profiles in either hall.

Verhallen notes that some of the incoming companies are making full use of the lighting setup now on offer, while for some older touring shows still on the road with performances based on static and dimmed lightsources, the adaptation may take longer, but the process is underway.

Technical planning for the new theatre originally started in 2018, and between then and now, the specs were modified slightly as new and more appropriate product choices came to the market. When the old building closed, Theater aan de Parade continued producing shows in a temporary venue - again with Robe products in the rig - while the construction was completed. Verhallen took up the technical management position for the new theatre to open its doors at the end of 2024.

Robe is a brand Verhallen has been more familiar with since visiting the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, he says, where Robe lit one of the main centrepieces, “Blue Hour” by Romain Tardy. Key members of the tech crew have also visited the Robe factory in Valasské Mezirící. Controllux coordinated the installation of the lighting systems and their related control network.

Pictured (left to right): Alphons Verhallen, Kuno van Velzen. (Photos: Paul Clarke/Mari Durieux/Louise Stickland/Kuno van Velzen)

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