Rigging

1. a long pipe
3. Holds the stage weights
5. The amount of maximum weight we will utilize given the breaking strength and safety factor
6. lift lines go down to the batten
7. Lift lines and hand line feeds through here
8. Has locks for the hand line
10. For safety, we always give ourselves room for error and safety. In theatre, we work with 1/10 of the breaking strength
12. Rope that someone operates
14. Pulling the bottom of the curtain upstage
15. the art of safely hanging things above head

1. How much weight a piece of hardware holds until it will generally fail
2. Using your hands to grab the bottom of the curtain
4. Where the weights are to load onto the arbor
5. Using your forearms to catch the curtain and don’t let it touch the floor
9. steel cable that holds the batten
11. are small metal plates in the arbor that are inserted between sets of stage weights to make the arbor more secure and safe
13. Pulley at the floor