Photo of the Week - August 8, 2011

[Jacob Coakley]

Greetings and Salutations! Time for another Photo of the Week contest! This week we've got a poll built around additive color mixing -- one red, one green, one blue. You get decide which is best! Up for grabs this week is a 1GB thumb drive from Philips Vari-Lite and three scripts from Broadway Play Publishing. Ready? Here we go!


Fool for Love, Added by Marihan Mehelba
Two guesses as to which color this is. Fool for Love takes place in a hotel room, and is Shepard to the core. This, obviously, is non-representational scene design, and the colors are as heightened as the script itself.







"She kept going as slowly as she had been...", Added by Lindsay Anne Black
Perhaps the longest title, and one of the coolest images. The shadow, colors and set piece all interact for an ethereal, dream-like pic. From April 14, 1912, by Theatre Rusticle at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver, BC.





RJ15, Added by Jim Ryan
From Romeo and Juliet at the Norman North High School in 2008. Two simple, strong colors, reaching together. Luckily it never ends badly when Red and Blue get together -- though, it is true that if it's purple, someone's gonna die...

Now go vote for your fave!

[Marihan Mehelba]

Thanks for all who voted:)

[Marihan Mehelba]

Thank you soooo much. I'm glad you've enjoyed the photo as I've enjoyed lighting the show.

[Jacob Coakley]

It was a tight race the past two weeks, but when both polls were added together "Fool for Love," added by Marihan Mehelba, came out the winner by a slight margin. Congrats, Marihan!

[Lindsay Anne Black]

Thanks so much for the nomination!

 

That show (April 14, 1912) was first produced in Toronto by Theatre Rusticle in 2007. This still is from a festival to which we toured the following year. It's a physical theatre piece about the sinking of The Titanic, as relived in a dream by the two marconi officers who were on duty, and the ship herself (pictured). I designed and built the set and the ship's costume. It was an underwater world of ice, and the ship (played by Lucy Rupert) was the now-broken showgirl she had been considered to be. In this scene, Lucy dances the sinking in a ten minute solo, which was strikingly beautiful and eerie. The title is taken from the text we used, which was largely from the statement given by Harold Bride (marconi officer) gave after he was rescued. The lighting is by Michelle Ramsay.