The Chalk Legend is a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra project inspired by London 2012. Written by composer Stephen McNeff, it tells the story of the Vikings whose skeletons were unearthed on the Weymouth relief road in music, dance and theatre.

Designed by JaneJaney the staging consists of two large raked platforms resembling parts of a Viking ship. We will post some photos up shortly.

For more details click here

The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site (known as the Jurassic Coast) is England’s first natural World Heritage Site. It stretches 95 miles from East Devon to Dorset with rocks recording 185m years of the Earth’s history.

Both fun and educational the idea was conceived and developed by experiential artist – designer Richard Hartnell based in Lyme Regis, Dorset.

You can take a trip Onboard from 4th – 10th May 2012 at Lyme Regis and between 26th July – 9th September at Weymouth, Dorset where the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Competitions will be taking place. More details can be found here.

The set consists of 4 portals, backcloths, cut cloths, front cloths and gauzes, a show gauze, reversible trucks and a flown nursery wall. Cloth sizes are 12m wide x 7m drop. Portal openings can be adjusted to fit various size pros openings.

Please refer to our portfolio section for some photos of the Peter Pan Pantomine Set.

If you’re interested please contact us for more details.

T: 01305 854400

E: info@scenetec.co.uk

The props include a giant alien around 5 metres tall, a crashed UFO, a rocket and a portal complete with falling figure.

You can now find images in our portfolio.

For more information about the exhibition visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13462771.

The Audrey II plants from the Little Shop of Horrors that we hire out to Schools, Colleges and Amateur Dramatic Societies are proving very popular. Here’s what one satisfied customer from  a recent hiring said:-

Thank you so much for being so accommodating during our hire of the fantastic ‘Audrey 2′! The plant made our production of  ‘Little Shop’ and your willingness to assist us during the process was fantastic. It was an excellent show and the service at Scenetec has been fantastic. Thank you!

Taunton’s College, Southampton

You can have a look at all four of our hire plants in the props section. We also have other essential props for the show available to hire. If you need any more details, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We were recently commissioned to build the set for the current Snooker Legends Tour which opened at The Crucible, Sheffield, a week before the World Snooker Championship.The opening night was a night for nostalgia with renowned players Alex Higgins, Cliff Thorburn, John Virgo, John Parrott and Jimmy White all taking part.

For more details log on to www.snookerlegends.co.uk.

We’ll be adding some photos of the opening night in our portfolio section soon.

Along with the set, we’ve recently built a full size electric Noddy car for the new stage tour Noddy in Toyland. The car is made from glass reinforced plastic, has twin electric motors driving the rear wheels and rechargeable 12v batteries. With the ability to turn 360 degrees, the car has an excellent turning circle, an important requirement for stage use. As the tour will be going to most regional theatres the stage set and car had to be adaptable for many stage sizes.

The Noddy books were first published 60 years ago in 1949. The author, Enid Blyton, spent many years holidaying in Purbeck, Dorset which provided the inspiration for many of her books – only a stone’s throw away from our studio.

More pictures of the car and set can be viewed in our portfolio.

As part of the set we had to design and build the rain system, a key element of the show. The system we devised, after much experimentation and research, consisted of an elaborate irrigation system fed from a tank in the wings via a pump. The water was collected in a gutter built into the touring stage floor. This was then re-circulated into the tank.

The Singin’ in the Rain number lasts for only five minutes and in that time, over 1,000 water droplet valves produce 600,000 drops of water. In all, around 583 litres of water per week, the equivalent to about five full bath tubs, will be used to produce the effect.

To see more pictures from the show, please refer to the Scenetec portfolio section.

Beauty and the Beast

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is currently touring the UK for a phenomenal fifth year and has received fantastic reviews over that period. We designed and built two stage sets for the tour to give it the adaptability to fit the majority of venues in the UK and abroad where it has played in Greece, Malaysia and Malta.

The show incorporates projection, illusions and pyrotechnics. It’s a fantastic family show with all the right elements for a wonderful night out. Catch it at a venue near you soon.

More photographs from the show can be viewed in the Scenetec portfolio section.

We recently provided some scenic elements for a show called ‘Horse’ performed by Flick Ferdinando from Company FZ. We also supplied fireproofed straw bales which we had difficulty sourcing, despite being surrounded by fields of straw, due to the late harvest. Eventually we obtained them from the Dorset Centre for Rural Skills where they use them to make straw bale houses.

Catch the show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 7 – 31st August 2009.