Lighting Moments, Wks 1,2,3! (LizB)

Sorry I kept forgetting to post these!! Enjoy!

Lighting Moment 1
It is either too late or too early. Night never truly arrives in the city, where electric signs burn and flicker. We look out over the rooftops of apartment buildings to where the dome of the old monastery looms up out of the murky greyness…

“in the early hours before the dawning Breath steaming and bodies heaving Seeking safety in the Other lights from the city contaminate the luscious darkness that envelopes us Liquor glows like electricity in our veins Raspy whispers snake from our throats Secrets spoken softly, silkily slither and disappear in the shadows In-Between Us”

How would I recreate this onstage?
I would want to capture that murky half-light in which things can only be half-seen—the “in-between” aspect referred to in the poem. Then there are the shadows, so I would want to use a high angle of lighting to recreate them. Next there is this idea of electricity and artificial lighting, so maybe unnatural blues, purples, yellows--almost bruised colors. Is it possible to make lights appear to “flicker”?

Lighting Moment 2
Sitting in the dining hall I notice the indigo blue of the sky and the sun making one last attempt to break through the clouds in a day that has otherwise been grey and rainy. It is early evening and the light filters through the branches of the trees weakly swaying in the breeze. A lone ray of light slides over the slick surface of a table in the dining room.

Lighting Moment 3
A constellation of small light bulbs attached to a wire hover over the buffet tables. They twinkle like overgrown Christmas lights; a few emit a violet hue. Behind them on the wall is the circular clock face bathed in electric blue light, strangely out of place, like an object stolen from a 1950’s sock-hop joint.