Beyond this base of light concept, I would stray away from it with localized specials and even verge on glamor and rock and roll as the situation permits in telling the story for the modern audience as per the point of the play so as to make it lively and live. Say make the protagonist live in a pool of modern benevolent lighting and or make dance scenes become to a point of almost but not all the way there full blown modern lighting rock type lighting. Just holding off a few steps from going full intensity and effort in such lighting.
Hmm, been a few years, remember reading that play but I don’t remember it more than that. Still while I might attempt - and I do mean attempt in seeing what it looks like in your situation and given your fixtures attempt to do a base of light in the old foot light and boarder light with supplemental spots from the house and arcs from the high wings, for todays audience and given the play I would not go totally with that style - more just the essence of it which might help the period setting. Given such a base of light observable but not obtrusive - stuff like the green tint there but not more so say in amber/green than the more normal lighting/modern lighting with say also a pink or what ever tint also to the scene that helps. Harsh angles and shadows from the primary period lighting there but not obtrusive given the modern lighting blending and washing to help normalize, this much less the modern lighting helping covey the scene for a modern audience that gets the old lighting for conveying time but still expects certain aspects of visibility and normal natural lighting.
Tough balances but stuff I might attempt as a preliminary concept to start with in seeing where it went. Would be really cool if you could light box this on a model to find the balance before it went on stage.
Again, just a thought and a very difficult balance requiring extra fixtures - not persay period fixtures though they would help to bring out. Research if you have time period lighting design books in how stages were lit. Balance that with this is a modern presentation for a modern audience. Stage conventions that worked than won't work now. Supplement it and even help it in say in general if she is modern, perhaps portray her and her circumstance in a modern light with the rest about in an older style. But Subtility will be a key to a very large extent.
Hmm, been a few years, remember reading that play but I don’t remember it more than that. Still while I might attempt - and I do mean attempt in seeing what it looks like in your situation and given your fixtures attempt to do a base of light in the old foot light and boarder light with supplemental spots from the house and arcs from the high wings, for todays audience and given the play I would not go totally with that style - more just the essence of it which might help the period setting. Given such a base of light observable but not obtrusive - stuff like the green tint there but not more so say in amber/green than the more normal lighting/modern lighting with say also a pink or what ever tint also to the scene that helps. Harsh angles and shadows from the primary period lighting there but not obtrusive given the modern lighting blending and washing to help normalize, this much less the modern lighting helping covey the scene for a modern audience that gets the old lighting for conveying time but still expects certain aspects of visibility and normal natural lighting.
Tough balances but stuff I might attempt as a preliminary concept to start with in seeing where it went. Would be really cool if you could light box this on a model to find the balance before it went on stage.
Again, just a thought and a very difficult balance requiring extra fixtures - not persay period fixtures though they would help to bring out. Research if you have time period lighting design books in how stages were lit. Balance that with this is a modern presentation for a modern audience. Stage conventions that worked than won't work now. Supplement it and even help it in say in general if she is modern, perhaps portray her and her circumstance in a modern light with the rest about in an older style. But Subtility will be a key to a very large extent.
