Lighting design by Tao Wang

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PlayMakers Repertory Company · 2023

A warm doorway and a blue bedroom share the same set. The lighting studies explore how window light changes the room before the production photograph shows those contrasting colors onstage.

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A wheelchair is silhouetted beside a blue doorway while warmer light spills from a room to the left. — Warm and cool light divide the house onstage. Photo by HuthPhoto.

Window light and color

One rendering sends a sharp patch of warm light across a dark floor. The other gives the bedroom a cool blue cast through tall windows.

Warm light through a rear window casts long geometric shadows around a standing figure. — Warm window-light rendering by Tao Wang.

Tall windows cast blue light across a bed and patterned floor in a dark room. — Cool color-temperature study from Tao Wang’s rendering archive.

Production and press

The PlayMakers production page gives the context for the show. Melissa Rooney’s review describes the lighting during scene transitions and the storm effects.

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Production credits

Lighting design: Tao Wang
Adaptation: William Goldman
Original novel: Stephen King
Director: Jeffrey Meanza
Scenic design: McKay Coble
Costume design: Grier Coleman
Original music and sound design: Kate Marvin
Stage manager: Sarah Smiley
Production photography: HuthPhoto

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