From the Desk of the Lighting Designer...

After just one week of rehearsal, the cast performed a run-through for the designers on Sunday night. The light plot was completed yesterday and today (Tuesday, May 16) we begin to hang lights over the stage. On Friday we will focus them; on Saturday I write the preliminary cues; and Sunday we begin the week-long tech process. This is an exciting and challenging time for me. This script requires multiple locations, times of day, and even "limbo" spaces where actors deliver narrative monologs. The set and stage space itself have a big impact on my work. To create the "ball park" location for certain scenes, we are renting fixtures that are like actual stadium lights (on a slightly smaller scale). I hope that everyone will come out to see the product of all our efforts on this one. It stands to be quite an intellectually stimulating and amusingly entertaining evening in the theatre.

Susan A. White
Lighting Designer
Susan designed lights for WTT's productions of Dinner with Friends and It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues.