How would I go about making something fly on stage in live theater?
I am working as the head set designer at a local community theater and the director is dead set on making the Magic carpet fly in the play "Aladdin". I am looking for ideas on how to accomplish this task with safety in mind. It needs to hold 2, light weight people, come half way across stage and drop down to let them off. I am very handy and mechanically inclined but, don’t know where to start as far as engineering the system for functionality and safety. I am open to any suggestions, ideas, etc. Please help…
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Seek professional (!!!) help locally.
Any accidents and you could be liable.
rig a pulley on a track up in the support beams and use black rope. if you have I-beams, you are set, just put a roller on each side of the beam and the pulley below. If not, you will have to rig something to act like the track. pull the tracked pulley across the beam, then lower it.
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