Light­ing design for the play Eury­dice by Jean Anouilh in the Peter Meyer trans­la­tion. Directed by Devin Brain at the Yale School of Drama, in the Ise­man The­ater in New Haven, Octo­ber 2010. Sets by Julia C. Lee, clothes by Rebecca Welles, sound by Ben Strange, pro­jec­tions by Paul Lieber.

All pho­tos copy­right T. Charles Erick­son.

The pro­duc­tion dis­cov­ers the gifted young cou­ple sur­rounded by a world of grotesque char­ac­ters giv­ing in to life’s weight, sorry excuses for their for­mer hope­ful selves. Refus­ing to com­pro­mise, the lovers meet in death in the form of eter­nal cin­e­matic beauty. The light­ing seeks to enable the set as a vast limbo space in tran­sit between two worlds. It also intends to ref­er­ence expres­sion­ist cin­e­matic styles that rep­re­sent simul­ta­ne­ous beauty and dark fore­bod­ing to cre­ate a con­stantly lay­ered universe.