Ducktastic is the new play by the award-winning team behind the smash hit The Play What I Wrote, to which White Light supplied the lighting rig in the West End and on tour. Ducktastic parodies Las Vegas illusionists Siegfried and Roy, telling the story of performer Christopher Ursula Sassoon's quest to return to the Las Vegas stage with a new show featuring the world’s most amazing performing duck!

Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the show re-unites lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe with producer David Pugh following their successful collaboration on the long-running Tribute to the Blues Brothers. Working with Woodroffe will be his regular associate lighting designer Adam Bassett as well as production electrician Paul Franklin and lighting programmer Vic Smerdon. White Light will be supplying the show with a rig that includes ETC Revolutions, Martin Mac600s, Vari-Lite VL2000 Spots, VL2000 Washes and VL3000Q Spots, and Martin Fibresource QX150 CMY lightsources. The conventional rig includes ETC Source Fours, PAR cans and colour scrollers with everything controlled from a Strand 500-series console. Ducktastic opens at the Theatre Royal Newcastle before moving in to the West End later in the autumn.

Going straight in to the West End is A Few Good Men; this play, written by Aaron Sorkin, now better known as the man behind the hit TV series The West Wing, began life on the stage before becoming a film starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. This new production, produced by Bill Kenwright, sees American film and television star Rob Lowe make his West End debut. Directed by David Esbjornson and designed by Michael Pavelka, A Few Good Men is being lit by Mark Henderson. White Light are supplying a rig including High End StudioColors and StudioSpots and ETC Revolutions as well as ETC Source Fours. Working with Henderson on the show is production electrician Keith Johnson; the show opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on August 18th.

These two shows join the many other ongoing productions using White Light’s equipment, including Billy Elliot, The Producers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, Death of a Salesman, The Woman in White, Tom Dick & Harry, On The Ceiling and Les Miserables in the West End. Further information about lighting hire for theatre, and the full range of other services offered by White Light including sales, installation, service and lighting for events and corporate productions, can be found elsewhere on this website.