The celebrated detective Hercule Poirot boards the legendary Orient Express and Absolute will be joining him for the journey! We will be providing the automation for Murder on the Orient Express at Chichester Festival Theatre. A revolve is used to great effect as part of Robert Jones' set design.
Absolute will be automating The Unfriend at Minerva Theatre in Chichester. The Unfriend takes a hugely entertaining and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice. Manners can be murder. Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer, whose hit television series include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with...
Absolute will be returning to Chichester Festival Theatre to automate their production of The Taxidermist's Daughter. A story of retribution and justice, The Taxidermist’s Daughter is a thrilling Gothic mystery set in and around historic Chichester. This world premiere is written by Cicestrian Kate Mosse, based on her No 1 internationally best-selling novel. The...
Absolute will be providing equipment for the Royal Opera House production of Madama Butterfly. We'll be providing equipment to automate several blinds and actuators that form large sections of the set, designed by Christian Fenouillat.
Absolute will be providing the automation for the My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum. This production marks the first major West End revival of Lerner & Loewe’s much-loved musical for 21 years. We'll be providing equipment to automate a large rotating truck that is a key part of the scenic design by Michael Yeargan.
Absolute will be providing the automation for the Cock at the Amabassadors Theatre. Taron Egerton, Jonathan Bailey, Jade Anouka and Phil Daniels star in COCK, the first West End production of Mike Bartlett’s Olivier award-winning play about love and identity. We'll be providing a Rack[Four] and a Desk[Five] to run the two revolves that form...
Absolute will be providing the automation for the UK Tour of Dreamgirls, which opens in Liverpool this December. For this production we will be collaborating with Rocket Scenery, who are providing the engineering. We will be providing a Rack[Four] to move the four tracking lighting ladders which are key in Tim Hatley's set design, adapted...
Following a sold out run at the National Theatre, the acclaimed production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane transfers to the West End from October 2021. Adapted by Joel Horwood from the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman, this spectacular and thrilling adventure directed by Katy Rudd, is a theatrical tour de force...
Our next production at The Bridge is White Noise, which takes an unflinching look at race in the 21st century from both a black and white perspective. After an acclaimed world premiere at the Public Theater in New York, it has its European premiere at The Bridge, directed by Polly Findlay. There are two lifts...
The Long Song is adapted from Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel by Suhayla El‑Bushra. The show runs at the Festival Theatre from 1 – 23 October, directed by Charlotte Gwinner. Absolute will be providing control for a lift and it's drop and slide cover which was designed and build by Adder Engineering. This will be incorporated into...
Our relationship with Chichester Festival Theatre began in 2018, when we worked on the West End transfer of their acclaimed production: Quiz. For the transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre, we provided a rental control system for a double-revolve. The revolve was built to replace the previous in-house revolve, which was beginning to show its...
The Donmar Warehouse presents Nick Payne‘s beautiful and heartbreaking romance Constellations in the West End, with four different casts. Absolute will be providing three direct flown winches to fly the scenery that forms part of Tom Scutt's award winning set design. The production opens in June at The Vaudeville Theatre.
We’re looking forward to returning to The Bridge for their production of Bach & Sons, opening in June. Vicki Mortimer’s set design requires two winches, that will be used to power floor tracks, and we will also be supplying our innovative mini winches to fly three chandeliers.
Absolute will be providing the automation to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's new production of Cinderella. The production is scheduled to premiere in Spring 2021 at The Gillian Lynne Theatre. The set design by Gabriela Tylesova incorporates two revolves — one 9 metres in diameter, the other 5 metres. There are also several items of flown scenery which...
Absolute will be providing the automation for To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s new play based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. This production, which hasn't played to an empty seat since opening on Broadway. The production was originally scheduled to start it's run at London’s Gielgud Theatre in May 2020, but has now been...