Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photographer: Daniel Domolky
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photographer: Daniel Domolky
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photographer: Daniel Domolky
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photographer: Daniel Domolky
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photographer: Daniel Domolky

Ivan The Terrible

by
with Zsolt Marko as Assistant Lighting Designer
This show is 'in repertoire'

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Set designer:

Costume designer:

Sound designer:

Dates: 
16/10/2016

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Designer's notes: 
“Ivan the Terrible” was the most interesting work for me. I worked there as an Assistant Lighting Designer lighting and as a compulite vector operator. It was a modern and slanglish transcript of the original play. It was directed by a young but great director, Atilla Vidnyánszky Junior. The plot was around two main things: time travel and a time travel machine. The first scene was in a room. After the first scene the stage opened and revealed the full scenery with gates going backwards smaller and smaller. On the gate's outer edges there were ordinary light bulbs placed. We used 450 light bulbs at 10 gates. The main purpose of these bulbs was to make effects while the time machine was on. We used it when the scenery changed and at the end of this play, when the main protagonist became an astronaut and climbed in the scenery from the front to the back. During working on that play, I learned how to plan effects from the beginning. I needed to plan the electrical system of the gates. The play was about 1 hour and 40 minutes and included 300 cues. It was a memorable moment for me when me and my mentor got the opportunity to design that play. That was my first real assistant job when I needed to deal with planning and implementing. With the effects and with the colours I created an atmosphere that sucked the audience to the stage and the viewers felt that they travelled back in time to the old Russia. I am really thankful to my mentor for trusting me and giving the opportunity to express my emotions on stage.

Production photographs

Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko
Photograph from Ivan The Terrible - lighting design by Zsolt Marko