Supplied his own material

[auld argonian]

I worked in a theatre hemp house in Victoria, It is so called because the fly system uses hemp rope instead of cable. Really dusty though.

I once heard a story from an old stage hand about the time they thought that they would "upgrade" a fly system and replace all of that old nasty hemp rope with modern synthetic rope...it was a disaster because the synthetic kept stretching and eventually there was so much slack in the sytem that all of the scenery and the counterweights were on the floor. Sometimes newer is not better.

Best

AA