Client: Cryptic\/\/Kathryn Joseph<\/p>\n
Services: Lighting Design, prototyping
\nOverview: Critically acclaimed, poignant staging of award-winning singer, Kathryn Joseph\u2019s second album From When I Wake the Want Is.
\nCompleted: 2019<\/p>\n
Kathryn Joseph plays From When I Wake the Want Is from start to finish in an unusual live staging of a complete album. Part theatre, part gig, part poetic journey, following the song list faithfully allows the true emotional and musical impact of the album to seep into the consciousness of the audience.<\/p>\n
The creative team add movement and variation to the intimate staging using mirrors and light, changing emphasis and sensitively enhancing the performance with a flowing stream of dreamlike images. The staging and lighting are technically agile, allowing the show to tour to a range of venue types with a small set up time while keeping consistent production values. DMX controlled light sculptures are used as the main source of light, with simple colour washes providing base lighting states and one overhead moving light adding special effects.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no one else like Joseph in the contemporary music scene. She is a unique artist whose music continues to cast spells, even to the uninitiated. Tonight, hearts are broken and stolen in equal measure\u201d
\nThe List<\/p>\n
\u201cJames Johnson\u2019s staging, Nich Smith\u2019s lighting, Josh Armstrong\u2019s direction and Mark\u00e9ta
\nKratochv\u00edlov\u00e1\u2019s costume design perfectly complements Joseph\u2019s album.\u201d
\nThe Skinny<\/p>\n
\u201cA stunning exercise in stage design and lighting from James Johnson and Nich Smith.\u201d
\nThe Stage<\/p>\n