Technical Design Solutions for Theatre Volume 3

Scenery Hardware

Actor-Friendly Pneumatic Brakes	Josh Prues
A Simple Hydraulic Caster Lift System	Steve Beatty
A Locking Mechanism for Telescoping Tubing	Guerry Hood
A Floating Knife for Tracking Scenery	Chris Brown
Tracked Scenery Using PVC Glides	Justin McDaniel
A Caster Grid	Timothy D. McCormick
Opera-Scale Rotating Walls	John D. Ervin
Compact Toggled Tip-Jacks	Stephen Henson
Electromagnets as Scenic Connectors	Mikey Rohrer
Black Carpeting as a Glide for Narrow Scenic Units	Don Harvey

Actor-Friendly Pneumatic Brakes

The 2001 production of Grand Hotel at the University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music required a revolving door platform that was used throughout the show, traveling from one spike to another during ...