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...
White Light has supplied the lighting for Magic Goes Wrong, which recently opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. Created by the award-winning Mischief Theatre and magic legends Penn & Teller, Magic Goes Wrong focuses on a hapless gang of magicians trying to host a charity fundraiser – with hilarious results. It features a lighting design by David Howe, who is lighting several of...
White Light has recently supplied the lighting on Teenage Dick; the critically-acclaimed production which is currently running at the Donmar Warehouse. Making its UK debut, Teenage Dick is a darkly comic take on Richard III and is directed by the Donmar’s Artistic Director Michael Longhurst. Set in an American high school, it tells the story of Richard who, after years of torment due to his...
White Light has recently supplied the lighting equipment for Mamma Mia – The Party; an immersive theatrical dining extravaganza based around the music of ABBA. Created by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Mamma Mia – The Party transports its audience to the island of Skopelos where taverna owner Nikos and his family present their story in a glorious night of song, dance and feasting. Running for four hours...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for the critically-acclaimed Baby Reindeer, which has recently opened at The Bush Theatre following its award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Written by Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer is a chilling personal narrative that looks at what happens when a kind gesture and trivial interactions results in much wider...
White Light has supplied the lighting for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which has recently opened at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End. First performed in 1967, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg tells the moving and heart-warming story of a couple trying to keep their family together whilst raising their only daughter who has cerebral palsy. Directed by Simon Evans, this latest revival stars...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for Falsettos which is currently running at London’s Other Palace Theatre. Originally performed on Broadway in 1992, Falsettos is a double Tony Award-winning musical which offers a poignant look at the life of one family as they live through the AIDS crisis. Despite other productions across the globe, this is the first time the show has been...