I worked with Jonathan again on Capture with my designs, this time creating cues to make them come together. I’d created all the scenes now with lighting that fitted my designs and the ideas based on Caryl Churchill’s writing, postmodernism and naturalism. We’d also added a further design for how the stage is lit when the audience enters. I’d kept it predominantly basic as her plays aren’t over the top and needing extravagant lighting, but it is definitely designed in a way that will capture audience attention and make them view the play with questions rather than just being shown something.

One of the big things we’d been working on was the ambulance interruption scene and how that could be done. Although there were many ways, it would be nice to have something that really stood out as this is the final interruption and happens only a few lines before the play resets for the final time and then actually ends. We worked in Capture with a few ideas, but nothing quite stuck. For this reason, after the meeting Jonathan put together some potential ideas for me to have a look at and see if I liked. Although some of the back lighting ideas sparked an idea in me, they were all strobe lighting and as someone with epilepsy I occaisonally have trouble with strobe lighting and in one performance they used so much strobe lighting I was forced to leave the theatre. I chose to draw inspiration from them but completely eliminate the strobes. By using strobe lighting I feel like you cut off potential audience members, so it’s always safer to go without it in my opinion.