Needing to stage a production of “Cabaret” inside a rehearsal space, Lighting Designer, Marcella Barbeau, used the unique, existing fluorescents in the space to add color into her pre-show lighting.

Needing to stage a production of “Cabaret” inside a rehearsal space, Lighting Designer, Marcella Barbeau, used the unique, existing fluorescents in the space to add color into her pre-show lighting.
Using color to indicate the time of day is probably part of the curriculum in every undergraduate lighting class. But taking the audience from dusk to dawn, without additional audible clues from the performers on stage, is a somewhat more complicated artistic challenge. That’s why it’s instructive to see how lighting design masters do it…