Inspired by the events of the past 18 months, Isolation is a digital performance piece which examines what happens when people from different backgrounds suddenly find themselves placed in bubbles. Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre, it was created and directed by Lukas McFarlane and features a lighting design by Will Alder. With a strong reputation for supplying both theatre and broadcast...
With ‘Big Performance – Who is the Star in the Star’, RTL has launched a new entertainment show in which celebrities slip into the shoes of other successful singers with the help of make-up artists. Half a song is performed in full playback mode before continuing with the artist’s own voice. The team of panelists, comprising Michelle Hunziker, Motsi Mabuse, and Guido Maria Kretschmer, had the task...
With this year’s Summer Night Concert, an event that has been taking place since 2004, the Vienna Philharmonic wanted to send a signal of hope in the year of coronavirus. As a result, the concert went ahead—albeit with a small number of spectators on site—as a live broadcast event on the TV channels ORF2 and 3SAT. The concert production itself, under the direction of Valery Gergiev, and featuring...
The annual Amadeus Austrian Music Awards are the country’s most important music awards, presented for excellence in the Austrian music industry. Since the year 2000, the most successful national artists have been accoladed in various categories. The ceremony traditionally takes place in front of an audience at Vienna’s Volkstheater and is broadcast on ORF, but the pandemic caused it to be...
Last night, we heard the sad news that award-winning lighting designer Howell Binkley has died following a battle with cancer. Howell was one of the most prominent lighting designers on Broadway and in the West End, with recent credits including Come from Away along with Hamilton for which he won a Tony, WhatsOnStage and Olivier Award. Born in Winston-Salem, USA, Howell attended East Carolina...
GLP are launching a new series of short form, fun and informative interview videos with lighting designers from around the industry. The series will see videos released on a weekly basis with different designers facing the same 10 questions. Covering their career starts, their career highs and some of the moments they would rather forget. Partly informative, partly inspirational, and partly...
When WL asked me to write this blog, I wasn’t exactly sure what it should be or, how honest I would be! What crazy times. Right now I should be sat in the opera house at Longborough with my favourite collaborators and friends creating the beautiful worlds of Wagner’s Die Walküre. Instead, I’m sitting on my bed (which is now my office space) listening to High School Musical – yes ladies and...
Originally from Manila, Philippines, Cha See is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, environmental performances and on-site installations in New York City. She recently worked on a New York Theatre Workshop production of the play Houseplant at the Fourth Street Theater. For reasons that she explains below, her lighting design necessitated a lot of green. Read on to see how she used three...
White Light has provided the lighting equipment for the UK tour of Ghost Stories, having also supplied its recent West End run at the Ambassadors Theatre. Written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, Ghost Stories has been terrifying theatregoers for over a decade. The show invites audience members to enter a nightmarish world, full of thrilling twists and turns, where their deepest fears and most...
White Light has supplied the lighting for You Stupid Darkness! which recently opened at the Southwark Playhouse, London. Presented by Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth, You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent new play set within the Brightline Call Centre and focuses on four colleagues who try to keep their lives together whilst the outside world falls apart. The Lighting Designer on the show is...