Lighting Observation #4
1) Thursday Feb. 10th 2011, 7:20 P.M. N.A.B. Black Box.
2) The cast of War of the Roses lit with a dying lantern.
3) During rehearsal tonight, while blocking the scene in which Joan of Arc summons the fiends, Royston had Avery turn off all the lights in the black box and gave Shanna a very large and powerful incandescent flashlight. The goal was to make the appearance of the demons terrifying, and it worked, at least from where I was in the mezzanine. The lamp was bright enough to light Shanna well and barely illuminate the “demons,” and the shadows cast made the large space feel claustrophobic. There was a definite orange tint to the light that made it feel very intimate. The battery in the lamp started to die, and the shadows on the faces of the actors (all but three of us) lengthened and darkened, creating an even more hellish feeling.