Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lighting — Art Rotch | Designer

Lighting Design

Produced by Perseverance Theatre

Photos by Akiko Nishijima Rotch

Directed by Robert Barry Fleming
Stage Managed by Olivia Tymon
Sets by Akiko Nishijima Rotch
Costumes by Erin Schultz
Music and Sound by Rory Merritt Stitt

Cast:

Elizabeth M. Kelly as Maggie

Enrique Bravo as Brick

Ricci Adan as Big Mama

Herbert Siquenza as Big Daddy

Meredith H. Schmidt as Mae

Victor Cuenca as Gooper

Benjamin Brown as Dr. Baugh

Kevin T. Bennet as Rev. Tooker

Alex Pierce as Lacey/Sooky

Callahan Crouteau, Theo Houck, and Dorothy Kuterbach as the No Neck Monsters

Press

“The creative set and lighting design also provides much-needed depth and variation where the script doesn't specifically provide for it.

Although a certain amount of claustrophobia is necessary to convey the tension of the plot, set designer Akiko Nishijima Rotch cleverly expands the set beyond the bedroom by making its walls just barely see-through. We are still totally aware of how the confined space adds to the heated atmosphere but we can also see other characters eavesdropping at the door, children playing in the hall and a croquet game going on outside. … Art Rotch's meticulous lighting design adds to that holistic experience; we don't realize the lights have been dimming throughout the play (mimicking natural light) until a character turns on a lamp and instantly floods the room with light. It's a sensation we've all experienced in real life, and it draws us into the play's reality. “ — Egan Millard, Anchorage Daily News Review, April 2014. Click here for the full review.

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