Comedy of Errors
Artist-in-Residence, internationally known Scenographer Ladislav Vychodil from Slovakia, designed a ‘high-tech’ setting of aluminum and plexi-glass to accommodate director Joe Cazalet’s vision for Comedy of Errors. Cazalet saw Comedy taking place in an advanced society somewhere in outer-space. The lighting design, in order to suggest that the space was from another world, incorporated a wash of mercury vapor light. Beyond the mercury vapor wash, specials and spot lights were primarily ‘high intensity’ instruments without any color medium to provided focus and definition. The use of color was reserved for a few specific moments in the production. A 20′ diameter hole cut in a cyclorama provided a projection area for multiple projections that ranged from abstract forms to portraits of the characters in the play. Professor Vychodil is an advocate of what he calls “lightogenic” materials. A 24′ x 12′ aluminum egg-crate wall provided a surface that became a canvas where light could paint a variety of images. The combination of aluminum and plexi-glass formed a truly exciting world for the play of light.