At the Comedy Theatre, White Light has supplied the lighting rig to the 40th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, starring Michael Gambon, directed by Patrick Marber and with lighting by Hugh Vanstone. White Light's equipment has not only lit the show but also featured in its publicity drive, with Gambon seen perching on a White Light dimmer rack in a photograph in a recent issue of Time Out!
Across at the Lyric Theatre, Paul Pyant has lit the new production of the Eugene O'Neill Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Jessica Lange and Charles Dance. And the West End has also seen new plays alongside classics, with Peter Mumford lighting Madame Melville, a new play by Richard Nelson starring Macaulay Culkin, at the Vaudeville, and Howard Harrison lighting To The Green Fields Beyond at the Donmar Warehouse, a production directed by the Oscar-winning Sam Mendes.
November also saw the return of old favourites: following the return of Thunderbirds to TV screens, the live version - Thunderbirds FAB - is back, running at the Playhouse Theatre with a lighting design by Jon Linstrum that includes four Martin MAC500s from The Moving Light Company, while at the Haymarket Sam Gibbons lit a new production of The Blue Room which transferred to London from Chichester. A newer hit, The Mystery of Charles Dickens, transferred from the Comedy to the Albery Theatre, taking Nick Richings' design with it, while one of White Light's touring shows, The Hobbit, lit by Robin Carter, will soon arrive at the Queens Theatre for a Christmas season.
And many other plays continue to enjoy ongoing runs, with White Light continuing to support the lighting rigs. These productions include Copenhagen (Duchess Theatre, lighting by Mark Henderson), An Inspector Calls (Garrick Theatre, lighting by Rick Fisher), The Graduate (Gielgud Theatre, lighting by Hugh Vanstone), and Art (now in its fifth year at the Wyndhams Theatre, lighting by Hugh Vanstone).
A full list of West End and touring shows currently using equipment from White Light and The Moving Light Company - and much more information besides - can be found here on the web site; tickets for West End and touring shows can even be purchased from these pages!