By the end of
technical rehearsals, book sculptures and seating cubes dotted JACK's
wood floor, roughly delineating the playing space. Across these, the
cast formed and reformed as the directors cycled through pieces and a
handful of lighting cues—a warm daylight effect, darkness, and two
bold washes, one purple one green. Reflected against the tin-foiled
crinkle of JACK's walls (its most uncompromising feature), the green
and purple elicited an endless formless horizon of dynamic, saturated
color. The whiter lights cast against the walls returned an intense
glare while a truly empty darkness remained elusive; the metallic
walls amplified any ambient light into a glow strong enough to
illuminate the outlines throughout the room.
