Welcome to Unusual

Over the years, Unusual Rigging has displayed many large items in an unconventional manner. We hang aircraft in positions to create the illusion of flight, we suspend valuable museum artefacts in mid air to optimise viewing positions and we display vehicles in every possible orientation. From a structural perspective, none of these items were ever designed to be suspended. If one tries to lift an aeroplane by the wings, it is more than likely that something will bend or break. Turn a car upside down, hang it by the wheels and a few surprises are inevitable. Unusual Rigging specialise in carrying out a wide range of complex display work without the surprises. An enormous amount of survey and structural engineering work goes on in the background, whilst the riggers on site benefit from an unparalleled level of experience.

January 15th 2009
The show has now opened and the very best of luck to anyone trying to get tickets for Oliver! Unusual Rigging played an integral part in bringing this amazing production to life at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Unusual Rigging has installed Terminal 5’s Christmas decorations in a week of overnight shift work. Twelve large inflatable globes with a variety of lighting effects now hang in the terminal building. Suspended on a Prolyte H40V 16m span truss grid, Unusual made bespoke steel wire rope assemblies on site to hang the globes in the desired orientation.