Kim Hollamby | The anchor swallowed

Just completed designing and running the lighting for Reading Operatic’s production of Oklahoma at the Hexagon in Reading.
In one sense it all felt a bit strange, the first show by this company since Geoff Bamford passed away. So a bit subdued at the beginning but the audiences picked up as the week went along […]

Good news - Strand Lighting has done something to sort its website and it looks a lot better. Bad news - it hasn’t bothered to redirect any of its old links - try to access them and you get a page with some old navigation and a brace of javascript errors.
It’s not nice work, it’s […]

Have just been asked to design the lighting for Sainsburys Singers performance of South Pacific at the Hexagon in Reading on 24-28 April and attended a run-through tonight. Notice was necessarily short because Geoff Bamford was originally lined up for the job.
Lots of scene changes to play with and some potentially tricky scenery positions […]

Terrible news; an email arrived telling me that Geoff Bamford died yesterday of a heart attack.
It was Geoff that got me involved in lighting again, ironically after suffering his first heart attack. I’d actually been asked to substitute for him as a lighting designer on a production at the Hexagon theatre, Reading, which nearly put […]

I got my hands on a Strand Classic Palette lighting desk for the first time this weekend, after getting called in to design and rig a dance school show at Bearwood College Theatre near Reading.
Knowing time was tight I was really pleased to see that I could download a copy of the ‘Offline’ version of […]