Macbeth (SLS) Lighting Design

Nathan Schroeder

Saint Louis Shakespeare presented Macbeth in October 2016, for which I received a St. Louis Theater Circle award nomination. The set design featured a large tree upstage right, from which the witches operated and in which the apparitions (as well as Hecate) appeared. Here are a few pictures:

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The set:

The set as forest:

The witches appear on the tree branches:

Lady Macbeth enters:

Lady Macbeth invokes bloody spirits, as the witches supervise from the treetop:

The witches manipulate Macbeth into seeing a dagger before him:

Everything gets bloody:

The witches watch the ghost of Banquo leaving after the feast:

Macbeth sees an apparition: