Week 2: Blood Wedding Shadow Play

I was recently in a production of Federico Lorca's Blood Wedding which included dynamic use of light and shadow play as a method of storytelling and visual imagery. I played the Moon and was lit from behind to be seen by the audience from behind a sheet. I used my silhouette to create grotesque and sharp shapes that created this surreal world where the personified moon had a voice and led Death (also personified) to find those lost in the forest. Light was so important in this show and we used it to create shadows that told stories of this heightened reality in Lorca's poetic and colorfully written play. This experience was a prime example of how we used light as a design element to create an entirely new and ominous world without having to change the set at all.