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Image : Montage of Talla Somhairle at Aros with overlaid text

Talla Shomhairle is a beautifully designed and fully equipped intimate theatre that has a warm Shakespearean feel due largely to the generous amount of rich woodwork, dark blue drapes and excellent acoustics. The venue is ideally suited to medium scale theatre productions, music and cinema.

Technical Specification for
Talla Shomhairle

Venue Profile
180 fixed, raked seat auditorium, with 4 wheelchair points, located at,
The Aros Experience,
Viewfield Road,
Portree,
Isle of Skye,
IV51 9EU.
Telephone 01478 613649 (admin) 01478 613750 (box office)
Fax 01478 613775.

Stage

10m x 5.5m full size
8m x 5.5m usable stage area with access SR & SL
Motorised FOH tabs, controlled either from SL or control room
Motorised masking tabs half way upstage, controlled from control room
6m x 2.6m motorised cinema screen
3 x wired lighting bars with selection of lamps
Mic and audio tie line boxes
Stage manager's desk with cue lights, intercom, backstage and FOH paging & show timer
Intercom system to control room sound & lighting points + other areas
32 amp and 64 amp outlet sockets
8 x suspended bars on pulley system to allow for installation of drapes, scenery etc

Technical Gallery

Pulley systems for all stage bars including lighting and scenery bars, and plugs for lighting

Sound

Soundcraft Live 24 input desk, with 16 mic inputs and 8 line inputs
FOH sound via 2 x Martin EM76A speakers and 2 x Martin EM201 Sub-bass speakers
2 way monitor mix (can be 4 way) with 2 x Martin EM76A and 2 x Martin EM56 speakers
Lexican Reflex effects processor with reverb, delay, chorus etc, all of which can be edited
Yamaha graphic equaliser for FOH mix
Yamaha graphic equaliser for monitor mix
2 x Behringer Ultracurve equalisers
1 x Tascam DA 30 DAT machine
1 x Fostex D5 DAT machine
1 x Denon Minidisk machine
1 x Denon CD player
1 x Denon Cassette machine
2 x Tascam Da 38 8 track Multitrack machines
1 x Panasonic S-VHS Video Machine
1 x Goodmans DVD player
1 x Pace motorised satellite system receiver
Auditel infra-red receiver system suitable for people with hearing difficulties
Simultaneous translation facilities via Auditel infra-red system
Patchbays allowing a wide range of configurations of system
All amplifiers are Yamaha P3500, except for dose monitoring in control room, which is Alesis
Selection of microphones: 6 x Shure SM57 Beta; 6 x SM58 Beta; 2 x AKG C1000S; 2 x Audio-Technica AT 4033; 2 x Beyer M88TG; 2 x Beyer M201TG; 2 x Shure handheld wireless; 1 x Shure tie-clip wireless; 2 x Shure SM58; 2 x Shure SM57 and 1 x AKG D100
Selection of microphone stands inch straight, boom and short boom
6 x EMO DI boxes plus all necessary leads and connectors

Lighting

Strand GSX desk with Genius 50, Kaleidoscope and Communique software
Selection of lanterns: 6 x Cantatas 11/26; 8 x Quartet 22/40; 16 x Quartet F with Barn Door attachments; 10 x Par Cans; 4 x Coda 500/4

House system configured as follows:
2 x 9m 12 way bars an winch sets located an the stage with selection of lanterns
1 x 9m 4 way bar on winch set located on the stage with cyclorama lanterns
1 x continuous 24 way FOH lighting bar wired on 12 circuits with selection of lanterns
2 x follow-spot positions
Spare capacity for companies wishing to use their own lights
Portable stands for lighting
Selection of filter gels