Death and Desire
Against the Grain Theatre
Opening Night: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
Company: Against the Grain Theatre

"Lighting Designer Jason Hand created a visual answer to the two voices with saturated, stark colours projected onto these squares. Stark whites and passionate reds took us through the stages of romantic love, and Hand's use of colour became grittier as the plot thickened. I loved that it was overwhelming, yet simple and organic."

-Jenna Douglas, Opera Canada

"[The] mysterious shifting moods are captured beautifully by director Joel Ivany, especially in Jason Hand's lighting, with squares of bold colours."

-Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine

"Lighting designer Jason Hand reminds us why everyone in the country is trying to give him awards for his work. His use of the gallery's own walls to create a 3/4 room's worth of cyclorama that he could colour at whim - and that large white box I mentioned earlier becomes a light box with some really incredible hues. His ability to keep the singers lit among some massive washes of colour, was arresting. You have to see his work to really believe it."

-Greg Finney, Schmopera


Death and Desire

Against the Grain Theatre
Neubacher Shor Gallery
Toronto, Canada

From the music of Die Schoene Muellerin by Franz Schubert, and Harawi by Olivier Messiaen
Adapted by Joel Ivany

Directed by Joel Ivany
Set Design by Michael Gianfrancesco

Featuring
Krisztina Szabo
Stephen Hegedus
Christopher Mokrzewski (piano)

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