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Lighting Designer: Top of the show:
There will be a lighting bolt gobo to appear on the upstage drop?  I assume this will be keyed by a sound effect?  Does this play before or after or during the ship wreak animation?

Director: Yes, before the animation...during the prologue.

Lighting Designer: Act III, Scene I. Before the house of Antipholus:
This is the scene that calls for the door unit onstage, for purposes of establishing the interior of the house (stage left) and the exterior of the house (stage right).  I thought we might use color in a subtle way to indicate the difference from stage right to stage left to identify the interior and exterior of the house, in a subtle way.  Along these lines, I was thinking of using some period window gobos projected from the front of the stage that would fall on the actors and the stage floor stage left, to give the illusion of sunlight coming in through a “fourth wall” window that is somewhere downstage.  This would further help to reinforce that this is the interior side of the stage.

Director: Great.  The exterior will always be stage right, even as the door moves...You are right on with this.

Lighting Designer: Act III, Scene II:
There was a moment in this scene where this music broke out suddenly and Antipholus started dancing.  Some kind of modern dance music.  Is this going to happen?  Should the light change to something like a mirror ball for this moment to indicate a disco like kind of mood?

Director: The song is more of a tango...I'm shooting for a very comedic exchange here. It promises to get lots of laughs with the choreography.  No disco ball…but the lighting can help convey the change in emotion hee...it's an aside for these characters to show how they feel about each other.

Lighting Designer: In general, I would like to see the play progress from morning light, to dusk to sunset.  The lighting would create deeper shadows and a touch of cooler color as the play progresses into the afternoon and evening and the set sets lower in the sky.  If we are able to find the time to wire up the window in the building facades so that they can glow as planned, then these would probably glow in the last scene when the Duke, his guards and the townspeople arrive in Act V, Scene I.  And, I have a nice full moon gobo that could also appear on the backdrop in this scene to indicate that evening is approaching.

Director: Nice.

Lighting Designer: At the end of the show we have talked about them walking into the sunset.  I have purchased a colored sunset projection photo/gobo to create the effect of the sun setting and causing a majestic coloring of the clouds as the sun lowers below the horizon and lights up the fading sky.  If you review our production website and look under the “lighting research” tab, you will see three sunset gobo projections.

Director: This would be OK, but I should have been more specific.  I'm thinking of the sunset resembling the half moon... yet bright orange/yellow.  The twins are walking upstage into a silhouette.    We should be able to achieve this without a gobo.

Lighting Designer: In general, it appears that often at the end of a scene, one character is left on stage to complete a short monologue, as the other characters depart the stage.  It makes sense to cool down and decrease the intensity of the lighting on stage in the areas where this lone character is not standing, so that the focus goes to that single character.

Director: Yes.  While actors changing scenes, would like actors to looks as shadow/ghos...unlike the upcoming focus on the actor.

Director's General Notes:

I'd like Egeon in act 1.1 to be top lit, so that it appears he is under indictment.  However, I'd like to see the officers and the Duke, (we are trying to find red contacts for the officers) and would like to see their faces.

We could use the disco ball effect for the finale...a modern pop song. 

I would like to use a fog machine during the prologue to compliment the mood of the lighting.

Glass Gobos manufactured by Apollo

These gobos are inteneded to be projected on the upstage cyc