Lucas Krech
Antigone – Lighting Design
Written by Jose Watanabe
Adapted and Directed by Gisela Cardenas
Production Design by Oana Botez-Ban
Sound and Video by Brian Dilg
Antigone premiered in Sibiu, Romania at the Cisnadioara fortress as a site specific work. The text was translated from Jose Watanabe's Spanish poem into English and Turkish. A single woman, the Narrator, inhabited all the roles in the play morphing from Narrator, to Creon, to Tireseas, to Antigone herself.
Shadows took on an important role in the visual storytelling. By playing with shadows and causing them to move and dance, the Narrator interacted with the many characters in the play and was able to lend the feeling of a full stage of performers while being only one person.
The color palette was tightly contained so as to focus more strongly on the shifting angles and shadows of the lighting. Through a careful rendering of the light we were able to make the space vast and confined, deep and wide, short and tall.
Photography by Brian Dilg
Lucas is a Berlin based Lighting and Video designer working in Opera and Dance. Opera collaborations at Opera Colorado, San Diego Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera, West Edge Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, West Bay Opera, Yale Arts and Ideas Festival, Whitesnake Productions, Firstlook Sonoma, and more. Dance work has been seen in over 30 US states, Norway, Holland, and Germany. Installations and video art has shown at galleries and festivals in New York, Virginia, Nevada, & California. Guest artist at Williams College, USF, Hollins, and UC Berkeley. Writing on design aesthetics and performance has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Parabasis Blog, On Stage Lighting, InDance Magazine, PLSN, and Stage Directions Magazine. MFA from New York University.