"Tableau" a Single Panel Curtain?

[TupeloTechie]

I'm primarily a lighting person, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, I'm also serving as the scenic designer/TD for a small Christmas production I'm designing the lights for.

The director really likes the look of a "Tableau Curtain," but our original source backed out. We now are being offered a single panel curtain, blue velour, but I would like to find a way to "open" the single panel a little bit like a tableau style curtain. This is an upstage curtain that would need to open to about 7-8' high in the center, to reveal a 4' faux brick wall. I'm led to believe that the curtain is 20' wide by 10' high, we can't cut it, but sewing rings/etc would be permitted.

Is there any way to approach this, or am I just dreaming?

 

[RickR]

You might be dreaming of an Austrian or Viennese curtain.

 

[JohnD]

There is this from Rose Brand:
http://www.rosebrand.com/subcategory621/stage-curtains.aspx
EDIT: This from stagecraftindustries is slightly different from RoseBrand:
http://www.stagecraftindustries.com/stage_curtains.php

 

[derekleffew]

A contour curtain could work, and presents visually similar to a tableau.

Need to sew vertical columns of rings to back of drape, spaced 2' or so apart. I'd guess a minimum of five lift lines. How much fullness is in your blue drape?