Lighting designer Jo Kilgour created edgy and graceful lighting for Hatupatu / Kurungaituku: a forbidden love, a breathtaking new aerial dance work produced by Aotearoa’s boundary-pushing kaupapa Māori theatre company, Taki Rua Productions. The work, written by creative director Tānemahuta Gray and Kapa Haka by Wētini Mītai-Ngātai, premiered at the Tãwhiri Warehouse in Wellington as part of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts.

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16/12/2025

Robe Blinds Friedrichstadt-Palast with Delight

One of Berlin’s most iconic venues, the Friedrichstadt-Palast, AKA Palast Berlin, a revue theatre in the city’s Mitte district, has made a substantial investment in Robe moving lights to help facilitate its newly launched Grand Show production, BLINDED by DELIGHT, created by Oliver Hoppmann, complete with a vibrant new lighting design by Chris Moylan of Sunrise Studios.

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10/12/2025

Det Norske Teatret Tops Up with Robe ESPRITES

Det Norske Teatret, one of Oslo’s liveliest and most influential theatres, has topped up the quantities of Robe ESPRITE moving lights for its 250-capacity flexible Scene 2 performance space, with the purchase of 11 x ESPRITE Profiles, which join the 15 x ESPRITE PCs acquired in 2022.

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11/11/2025

Rakvere Theatre Expands LED Range with Robe

Rakvere Theatre is a thriving arts and live performance hot spot in the attractive, compact and culturally significant northeastern Estonian city of Rakvere, around 100 kilometres east of capital Tallinn. The theatre opened in 1940 and offers a lively repertoire of classic, contemporary and experimental works from around the world, including from Estonia’s finest and most acclaimed authors and playwrights.

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28/10/2025

Robe Helps Spin Skulerevyen at Det Vestnorske Teateret

Lighting designer Jon Eirik Sira thought outside the box when tackling an interesting visual conundrum for Det Vestnorske Teateret in Bergen’s recent and acclaimed production of Skulerevyen (School Review). The show was a raw, visceral, no-nonsense take on the issue of violence in schools through the decades, peppered with wit, dark humour and stark truths, billed as “The revue for those who have survived school!”