This week was a continuation from the previous, but in fact we focused on how performers react to different lighting situations. As you should, for our plays we are focusing on Caryl’s Churchill’s Love & Information play. These are comprised of various short and long plays that all have connection to one another, whether it’s subtle or oblivious. Her vision is to always to get her views across ranging from social, moral and political. These plays are a window in how she operates as playwright and it’s up to us as audience members to interpret. However, this workshop was lighting based which made us try to figure what each would look like with a certain set of lighting For example, the scene Terminal; this was used with lightning square with the doctor’s face being in the shadows which gave the scene a more ominous look. The scene is about a patient pleading with a doctor for the results of how they’ve got to live, and the doctor seems hesitant to deliver the news. Moreover, we played around how the doctor’s demeanor can be such as reluctant, evil, sad, or even optimistic. Each demeanor added a new dimension of how the scene made be taken into context. We gathered feedback at the end of the session and discussed that we should experiment with tones of voices and even accents to a degree.

Above is the different lightnings that were used in rehearsals when performing terminal.