Join us for a participatory workshop where we will be exploring the absence of light through an embodied communal experience. Through immersion in a designed environment of light and darkness the session will stimulate new thinking about designing for audience experience and provide a space to reflect on the potential and creative opportunities for using light and darkness as materials in performance. How might we understand the affect of light and its absence in the theatrical context? How do we see and feel in changing conditions of light/darkness?  How does darkness influence meaning-making through both semiotic understandings and phenomenological responses? What strategies might we employ to design audience experiences using a dramaturgy of light and darkness?

The workshop offers a unique opportunity for a shared experience of darkness within a safe environment and has been developed for creative practitioners looking to spend some time contemplating the creative potential of light and darkness. Previous iterations have been acknowledged as “transformational” and experienced by theatre makers, artists, architects, musicians, technicians, academics and theatre critics.