Hugely successful Australian burlesque Star Wars parody “The Empire Strips Back” has just completed its most extensive North American tour to date, also visiting Canada for the first time, complete with a suitably boisterous lightshow designed by Peter Rubie, featuring 30 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams as the core moving light fixtures.

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10.12.2025

Det Norske Teatret Tops Up with Robe ESPRITES

Det Norske Teatret, one of Oslo’s liveliest and most influential theatres, has topped up the quantities of Robe ESPRITE moving lights for its 250-capacity flexible Scene 2 performance space, with the purchase of 11 x ESPRITE Profiles, which join the 15 x ESPRITE PCs acquired in 2022.

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11.11.2025

Rakvere Theatre Expands LED Range with Robe

Rakvere Theatre is a thriving arts and live performance hot spot in the attractive, compact and culturally significant northeastern Estonian city of Rakvere, around 100 kilometres east of capital Tallinn. The theatre opened in 1940 and offers a lively repertoire of classic, contemporary and experimental works from around the world, including from Estonia’s finest and most acclaimed authors and playwrights.

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28.10.2025

Robe Helps Spin Skulerevyen at Det Vestnorske Teateret

Lighting designer Jon Eirik Sira thought outside the box when tackling an interesting visual conundrum for Det Vestnorske Teateret in Bergen’s recent and acclaimed production of Skulerevyen (School Review). The show was a raw, visceral, no-nonsense take on the issue of violence in schools through the decades, peppered with wit, dark humour and stark truths, billed as “The revue for those who have survived school!”

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24.10.2025

Zvezdara Theatre Belgrade Invests in Robe

Zvezdara Theatre in downtown Belgrade is the first theatre in Serbia to take delivery of Robe lights since Light and Sound Design (LSD) took on distributorship of the brand in late 2023.