Final scene with the wall open from Handprint Alley.

Through stories of adventure and valiance, "Aunt Leaf" explores the depths of a child's mind, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. The lighting served to delineate between the real and the made up, creating a visual vocabulary saturated with color. Blues, ambers and hints of green created our grounded world of reality. As pinks, purples and oranges filled the space, this world of fantasy became brighter but eventually overwhelming. Photos 1&3 are in the world of reality while 2&4 are in the world of imagination. The last photo shows a fusion of both.

Beatification of Area Boy was written by Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1986. The play is a series of vignettes, all strung together by a common event: the destruction of a shanty town to make way for modern oil-money demands. The overnight burning of the shanty town happens before the play begins, and thus is the cause of the "blood red sunrise" that starts the show. The Nigerian civil war is recalled by the Mother Courage type, Mama Put, who still carries the bayonet soldiers used to kill her brother.

This is the scene in "Bridge to Terabithia" when Jess and Leslie take their pet, Princess Terrian, to Terabithia for the first time. Every time they were in Terabithia I used mysterious side lighting.

The lighting for this show, Romeo and Juliet, was important for setting the tone and the setting for the scenes. In the funeral scene, toplight is used to create an eerie shadow on the actors' faces. This can be done because there is no talking. There is also a projection of a cross onto the cyc to put a religious overtone in the scene. In the night scenes, a moon box is used behind the cyc, and R60, no color blue is used to put the scene in nighttime. There is a spot on Juliet's balcony to make her stand out.

These photographs depict the scenes in the play Romeo and Juliet where the lighting helped make the scene. For example, in the funeral scene, there is a lot of top light, making shadows on the actors' faces, in addition to the cross projected on the cyc. In the night scenes, a moon box was used in addition to heavy use of R60, no color blue, to put the scene at nighttime.

These photographs depict the scenes in the play Romeo and Juliet where the lighting helped make the scene. For example, in the funeral scene, there is a lot of top light, making shadows on the actors' faces, in addition to the cross projected on the cyc. In the night scenes, a moon box was used in addition to heavy use of R60, no color blue, to put the scene at nighttime.

Written by Federico Garcia Lorca, Translated, adapted, and directed by Robert Eric Shoemaker, Lighting design by Brett Pepowski, set design by Rebecca Segall

Written by Federico Garcia Lorca, Translated, adapted, and directed by Robert Eric Shoemaker, Lighting design by Brett Pepowski, set design by Rebecca Segall

Der 1.1.2013 ist ein wiederkehrender Event im Kultur- und Kongresshaus in Aarau. Es werden immer ca. 900 Personen zum Stadt-Apéro erwartet. Im Foyer ist Barbetrieb, im grossen Saal Bankett und Tanz, im Saal 2 ist Tanzen angesagt.