Stage Directions: Starting out at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton before transferring to New York’s Park Avenue Armory, The Lehman Trilogy returned to London for a 15-week run at the Piccadilly Theatre. Space constraints at the new venue instigated a move from projection to LED – a challenge that was answered with a video design from Universal Pixels.
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I have commented a lot on here about the use of LED screens in shows, but they really are effective. In this case, they did not have enough physical space to use projections for this show. It was necessary to use the LED screens in order to take up less space while still having an effective product. LED screens, in combination with traditional scenery, have always been really interesting to me. It allows for a multitude of scenes to take places, whereas with only traditional scenery, it is hard to drastically change scenes. I think they add a really nice, realistic element to the scenery. In the case of the Lehman Trilogy, “Luke Halls’ powerful video design provided movement and motion, shifting the context through environments and time – from the cotton fields of Alabama to modern-day New York.” This to me, is a very interesting use of media design. They used it to show the progression of time and the changes from place to place while still taking place in the same glass box for the whole show. This was a really effective use of LED screens.
WOW! I am astonished. I am impressed. This looks like a beautiful masterpiece of art and I really want to go to the West End and see it in the Piccadilly theatre. Starting off with the show itself, it looks phenomenal and I am sure it tells an impressive story that is very relatable to todays world and the atmosphere of jobs and working through the industrial revolution till now. The other side of it definitely stems from the LED screen. I understand that the show was originally designed with projection in mind and it appears to play a big role in such a play as they decided to figure out how to make a LED screen to replace it so far in advance. However, I don’t think I would particularly enjoy it with projection based on what I could see and find with relation to the LED screen. It almost makes me want to see both to compare. Either way, it appears to be a brilliant show and I am glad a solution was able to work for it.
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