Our clients include:

Art Angel Trust, Artichoke Productions, Arup, Aston Martin, Birmingham City Council, BBC, Cameron Mackintosh, Disney, Edinburgh International Festival, EON Productions - James Bond Films, Garsington Opera, Goldstar - Mamma Mia!, Horsepower International, Imagination, IMG, ITV, Jack Morton Worldwide, Jaguar, Live Nation, London Internatinal Festival of Theatre, London Film Festival, Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002, Manchester United FC, Mansell, P & O, RAF Museum Cosford, RAF Museum Hendon, The Barbican Centre, The Ministry of Defence, The Really Useful Group, The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, The National Space Centre, The Science Museum, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, Warner Brothers

Oliver!, Imagine This, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia! and Cats
Our theatre work breaks down into three main parts: Touring, West End shows and stage engineering. The first two components concern making the creative product - the show - work in a venue and the third component addresses the need to make venue work better when receiving the creative product.

The creative team are those with the vision of the experience that they wish to deliver to the audience. The degree of technical understanding amongst creative teams varies enormously, so the process of realising the vision falls in the first place to the chief interpreter, otherwise known as the production manager. The production manager has a wide range of technical experts ‘on-call’. This is where Unusual Rigging fits into the picture.

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.

Unusual Rigging installed a truss arch to span Princes Street for The Corporation of London for the Lord Mayors Show. Preassembled into sections to fit a flatbed, the arch was erected in less than two hours on site. Branding was applied and the BBC suspended a remote controlled camera from the arch. Further work was undertaken by Unusual for the Territorial Army’s TA100 campaign. Branding was applied to site structures and also parade vehicles.

Behind the headline is the story of a refurbishment programme, which pragmatists saw as audacious and the more adventurous considered being achievable.