Week 4: Knife Light and Oedipus Rex

My Wife was sitting on the couch (that's her toe), and exclaimed "do you see that light?" I didn't. She described what she saw, and I maneuvered so I was right behind her and could see the sharp lines of light.
This knife-like light isn't an unusual phenomenon, but still I felt wowed - impressed. It had an austere quality. For some reason it made me think of the latter portion of Oedipus Rex, just after he's stabbed out his eyes - the clarity of what he's done so sharp it maim. . . Two sharp knife-like beams hitting a black, bare stage. Oedipus comes out of the palace after blinding himself, between these two beams. His double transgressions, killing his father and marrying his mother, hurt mentally like the two fresh wounds that were his eyes. How could this most closely be achieved? Two mostly shuttered Lekos? Add a bit of fog to the air?

CHORUS An end too dread to tell, too dark to see. 

OEDIPUS (strophe 1)

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, 
Wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. 
Ah me, ah me! What spasms athwart me shoot, 
What pangs of agonizing memory? 

CHORUS No marvel if in such a plight thou feel'st 
The double weight of past and present woes. 

I found this next image online.  Leko? Two of these next to each other would look like eyes. Can this beam be shaped to be more in a single plane, instead of round? Would we lose the sense of eyes

A GOBO with two slits I think would only appear clear when striking the floor. The beam wouldn't be as clear.

I know using eyes as a lighting motif for this show is pretty obvious, but still much could be done to make the appearance of eyes part of the story. Angle, color, intensity, location, and coherency could vary for differing effects. A Director and Actors may decide different characters notice, not notice, or deliberately ignore their appearance throughout the show, at different times.

Here's the phenomena occurring in the natural world in a big way:

One problem with this idea is shown in this next picture. It's taken just one foot to the right of the first. The light still has a sharp quality, but each beam appears a bit different. Some are narrower from this angle than others.