Theatre Set Hire

Set Hire

SCENEgineering have the following sets available for hire. All sets have an information pack available upon request.

Rent is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of AIDS.

Stage right comprises of the boys apartment on 2m high steel decking with a handrail surround under which the onstage band can be located. The apartment is joined to a platform surrounded by a scaffold tower on stage left by a 3.5m bridge that crosses the stage at 2m height. Beneath the bridge is an apartment style sliding door that can be used to change the main stage to the interior of the boy’s apartment. This can be used for the likes of "Light My Candle" and "Today 4 U". The set also comes with a spectacular brickwork and graffiti back cloth.

This is a very versatile set and since its completion has been massively popular in use in, Glasgow, Belfast, Newcastle and West Bromwich. For an information pack please call 0141 248 8330 or email sets@scenegineering.com

Fame the Musical is set in the early 80s and follows the story of a group of teachers and students studying at the old dilapidated New York School of the Performing Arts in its last year before moving to a new building. The show touches on some strong themes such as such as prejudice, literacy, self-worth, sexuality, drug use and perseverance "Fame costs and right here is where you start paying".

The set comprises of two 2m raised platforms linked by a 3.5m bridge walkway. The treads at the front of the stage are trucked and roll effortlessly out from under the two platforms to allow access to the top level from down stage as well as to create a variety of scenes and backdrops when required.

The car is positioned beneath the bridge, masked by a cloth which is removed to reveal the car at the finale.

The access to the set is from up stage left and right wings and the on-stage treads can be extended from under the steel deck, taking the cast to the upper level.

The flats on the set are of broken plasterwork effect, and from this level the school scenes can be set with props, and also the outside street scenes.

The set is 8m wide, 4.85m deep with treads to the rear and 4m deep depending on required access point to the upper level, making this set very adaptable to small and medium sized theatres.

Nathan Detroit has all the best gamblers in town relying on him setting up a floating craps game; the only issue is he needs $1000 to hire the venue. In an attempt to get the money, he places a wager with Sky Masterson, betting that he can't get Sarah Brown, who runs the local mission and is short on sinners, to go with him to Havana. The show includes the songs: Luck Be a Lady, Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat and many more.

The set is a static set with three playing levels:- Stage level, 1.8m side towers and a 2m central tower, with a back drop of the New York skyline. This gives the set depth and allows many areas of the set to be used for the different scenes. The set is designed to be flexible to accommodate most stages, raked or not, with ease. It has a width of just less than 8m, depth of 3m, and a height of 4m.

The main access to the set is from stage left and right wings with treads taking the cast to the upper levels with the traditional New York cityscape scene. The flats on stage level have scenes containing a news stand and brickwork flat for New York street level as well as the entrance door to "The Hot Box" club, which is a reversible flat with the internal sewer scene on the other side.

Jesus Christ Superstar tells the story of the last days Jesus Christ's life and the relationship and betrayal between Jesus and his closes disciple Judas.

This is a very adaptable set when it comes to setting the scenes, based on several levels:- stage level, a main 2m level, with smaller levels stage right at 1m and stage left at 2 feet and 3 feet, the depth of the staging at its greatest point is 5m with a width of 8m.

These heights and levels allow the director to use their imagination to the full when telling the story.

The walls of the set are covered with stonework effect flats with entrances from stage left and right on ground level, but actors can also enter from behind the set and come out from the stone archways to the front. This is excellent for the temple or leper scenes with actors able to enter via treads at the back stage left and stage right, onto the upper level.

For more information please call 0141 248 8330 or email sets@scenegineering.com

Oliver is the story of young Oliver Twist, an orphaned boy. The show follows his journey from the workhouse, to being sold to an undertaker, to his escape and meeting with the Artful Dodger and joining the academy of orphan pick pockets, and the troubles that ensue.

The show contains the well known music for Consider Yourself, Food, Glorious Food, As Long as He Needs Me and many more.

This is a static set based on with three playing levels:- Stage level, 1.8m side towers and a 2m central tower. This allows many areas of the set to be used for the different scenes, as Oliver's story is told. This superb static set can fit on any stage with ease, with a width of just less than 8m, depth of 3m, and a height of 4m.

The main access to the set is from stage left and right wings with treads taking the cast to the upper levels with the backdrop of the London town rooftops, which looks superb as the setting for the songs Food, Glorious Food and You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two. The lower stage level has timber panelling flats, and the staging is set with the usage of props.

Also available to hire from SCENEgineering Ltd with the permission of Glasgow Music Theatre, we have the backcloth for West Side Story.

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story sees the gang rivalry between The Sharks and The Jets, with new loves Tony and Maria caught in the middle.

The printed backcloth itself is of gray brickwork with graffiti, containing lines from the show. It looks superb as a static backdrop, and could be used for the show just based on the one level using props to set the scenes or even a concert performance of this classic show.

The cloth dimensions are 33 feet wide by 17 feet drop, and can be tied onto any bar.

A musical about seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
The set is a simple affair of trucked and flown mirrors, all 8ft x 4ft in size. There is a ballet bar available which is free standing. The set is unltimately flexible and simple to assemble/disassemble. There are 6 trucked mirrors and 3 flown mirros available.

Back to the 80's follows teachers within a school as they reminisce about their time at school during the 1980s. The show is bright, bold and colourful and the set reflects this, based on the design and colour of a Rubik's cube. The set is a static set with three levels:- Stage level, 1.8m side towers and a 2m central tower. This gives the set real depth and allows many areas of the set to be used for the different scenes as well as separating the present day action from the action back in the 80's. A car prop is available for the associated musical number which fits beneath the 2m central rostra section and appear through concertina doors at the lowest level. The set is versatile and can be easily used in any way required by the director, really bringing out the colour of the show and performances.

Small Venue Set

For smaller venues with no flying facilities it is almost impossible to give your show the backdrop it deserves. SCENEgineering has developed a new concept in set design to resolve this. The set consists of 5 prisms, each mounted on a rotating platform. Each prism is 3 sided and 1.2m wide by 2.4m high. When lined up the set has a total depth of 1.2m and is 6m wide. It operates on the same principal as advertising billboards in that on each group of faces is displayed a different scene and when the faces line up, the full picture is revealed. Rotate each prism 120 degrees and you have the next scene, another 120 degrees and you have the final scene. This would also be perfect for a corporate event backdrop or similar as our scenic artists can create any backdrop you require.

Small venue set pictures show Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, other sets available, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella and Aladdin, pictures available on request.