The show the flying lovers is about the artist Marc Chagall who was a great user
of color and the way we get color onto the stage is through light so this set
doesn't change at all through the production has a white backdrop that has
quite a muted color tone and the rest of the set
I think the lighting really helps to tell the story and to create the
environments that people are within and to teach us a lot about what Marc
Chagall was doing with color and with paint
we're really lucky with when we made this show because the technology were
using to light it with has only been on the market for one two maybe three years
some of it and it's all almost all LED color changing fixtures so each light
has inside it red green blue and maybe a line colors LED chip and we mix those
together and we can make just about any color in the world that we want to make
so the fact that we like the color of the lighting changes so much in the show is
allowed by that technology there was a power cut when I was growing up and where I lived
instead of being lit just by fluorescent tubes it became lit by torches and
candle lights and paraffin lamps and became a kind of magic toy shop world
that people talk about but it transformed the way I perceived my
immediate environment basically light created magic I'm very aware of the
light the way it changes in different locations as I changed through the day
and through seasons and that in theatre that would be considered naturalism and
what we tend to do is much more theatrical and more heightened but we will feel
something when the base in moonlight or at sunset or when they are by the sea and
the light is bouncing up off the water when it snows and suddenly everything's
blinding and we can use those things not
realistically but as tools emotionally and in storytelling on stage and
audience connect with those because they are experiences that directly relate to
the own. Their own lives.
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