Week 8: Threepenny Opera @ A Noise Within

This past weekend, I hit up A Noise Within to see The Threepenny Opera. A friend of mine is currently interning there and he let me know about a "pay what you can" night they had going on. Being broke as a joke, I promptly dropped all my other plans and got over there at 2PM to snag a ticket. Anyway, this was my first time at ANW and wow, I could really tell why tickets are so expensive! I was blown away! The first thing I noticed was the presence of hazers (posted on a sign up front), which really made every beam of light look cool. I particularly liked how the beams split apart when they passed through gobos. Also, being a Brechtian piece, one of the pipes was constantly out and visible to the audience. There was a good variety of different fixtures in use, most noticeably a series of par-cans on the aforementioned pipe, as well as some lekos stage right and left, a couple of moving lights, and some LED strip lights on the thrust. These had what I can only describe as miniature par-cans on top of them, visible in this picture. For obvious reasons, I couldn't take a picture during the play itself, but the use of color during it was very effective.