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Lighting Design

A quick squizzoo to the Barn Theatre in Southwick to work alongside Martin Oakley designing lights for Wick Theatre’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. I also supported Publicity Lead Emily Dennett with some publicity things (as she was also playing the lead in the play!) including press: it was good to be back writing copy for the Herald again! Article here.

I love my desk

Loads of tech difficulties with the lighting which would have tried the patience of a saint – and with one thing and another, after Martin had set the lights everywhere they should be and he and I had checked them all, I ended up designing the lighting states on my own – which was SUPER, I do love that. My favourite was the end scene, with a grey dawn breaking through the window. Photo below courtesy Miles Davies.

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Wick Theatre Company’s Production of Frankenstein

It’s been an amazing journey in support of this fabulous production. I have some really good friends in the cast, among them Phil Nair-Brown playing the Creature, and Sam Razavi playing Victor Frankenstein. These actors are incredible professional actors, super talented, and also super lovely humans. Their scenes together are electric – they positively sizzle.

So if you’ve seen any publicity on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, that will be my doing. Or press, for example this lovely article across the Worthing Herald Group of newspapers thanks to Phil Hewitt: click here. Or if you see the show and like the programme, thank you very much!

I’ve also been part of creating the lighting for the show, and I will be running lights (and there are a lot of changes) during the show. I don’t expect you to notice necessarily unless you are involved with theatre yourself – it’s there to add ambiance, to improve your theatrical experience – so people usually only notce if it’s wrong or jarring! Which is the same for sound of course. It’s been full on, lighting tech until 1.25 in the morning, then back in the Theatre 2 days later as there seemed to be issues (which it turned out there wasn’t) but changes and tweaks were requested: another 3 hours. It’s all worth it if it looks amazing, and it does.

And working with some brilliant friends while you do all this? Priceless. Absolutely priceless.

A sneak preview to one of the lighting states, and my desk for the week: the view from the lighting box