Alabama Story, by Kenneth Jones, takes the audience back to a time where the United States was the most divided and segregated. As the story unfolds, we got see both positive and negative perspectives on how segregation affected our nation and how some these characters dealt and fought for the fundamental rights we have today. I attended the Clarence Brown Theatre performance of Alabama Story on February 14, 2018 and witnessed extraordinary lighting design, which helped expressed the story in a magical way. In this performance of Alabama Story, the lighting design helped tell the story by defining locations, expressing seasons of the year, and using color to establish a mood. Through the observation of the lighting design, I grasped a better idea of the world of the play and its characters. …show more content…
Most of the settings in this play occurred mostly inside of a library, and a few outside locations. Whenever the scene took place inside the library, only half of the stage could be seen and it had straight, box like edges, which helped define the fact that they were inside an office. The visibility of all the characters, and the furniture were always clear but the intensity of the lights in these scenes were never extremely bright, which helped clarify that they were inside a room. When it came to the outside scenes, for the most part the whole stage was visible. The intensity of the lights drastically increased to showcase bright sun light, and the distribution seemed to be coming from an above and side of the stage sources. Another distinct quality about the outside scenes were the warmness and coolness that the lights portrayed, which helped expressed the temperature and weather of the