The Society of British Theatre Designers

fashionable Buenos Aires gallery is showing the works of Juan Pablo Castel. During the show he notices a young woman staring at one of his paintings. Maria Iribarne's unique appreciation reveals her to be the only person who truly understands him and his work, and signals the beginning of a desperate, passionate obsession for both of them. I used a mercury vapour floodlight to provide a flat field of intense blue light throughout the show coupled with a constant veil of mist using a hazer. This was intended to underscore the play's structure of a first person narrative, the action of which is a series of memories. The photograph above captures the quality of the prevailing atmosphere most accurately.