Theatre Stages

[Melissa Nute]

I am in the process of writing a theatre paper at school about set design. Well...actually a letter to a set designer advising him with what to do. (Silly IB assignments)

I am discussing the use of a mawari butai (revolving stage); however, I decided to make it mechanical instead of the traditional use of stage hands underneath the stage. My mawari butai is on top of the existing stage. Basically, my point is I am trying to figure out how to describe exactly how to build a gear-motor system that will be able to support such a revolving stage and more so exactly what type of motor to use for this.