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What does the colour of lighting show in a play?
I'm writing an essay on the Merchant of Venice, and I need to talk about how the stage setup shows how Shylock can feel victimized.
If the set is wanting Shylock to be a victim, what colour lighting will it use, and what will this show (e.g jealousy, evil etc).
Also, how else will the set design show him as a victim?
Lighting in theatre can be a very powerful force - making someone look a victim or getting sympathy from the audience can be accomplished in lots of different ways. In shows I have seen and been in, if things are looking bleak they often use lue tinge filters, which gives a sort of isolated look. Or they dim lights around the character and soft spot light them to emphasis they are alone. Sometimes it is a case of colouring others with faint tints of green or red so the intended "sympathetic character" stands out. A clever effect I've seen done is to have a fairly innocuous looking barred window frame that can have a bright side light that will cast the shadow of bars over the character and a streaming light in on them when they stand in certain spoots. It hits the audience subconscious as prison bars. Sometimes set designers will stylise area's of the set to have something like a red area to frame the actor if they are talking about blood, or do a blood lighting wash on the cyclorama at the back. When you are dealing with something like the Merchant of venice you can give immense nuane to a performance by doing this sort of thing, or playing with shadow shapes. In terms of set design, having raised area's so other characters can literally talk down to the Shylock character, or contrasting light and dark area's can show a division as well.
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