A judging panel of entertainment professionals shortlisted Allen Lee Hughes' design for A Soldier’s Play for the Play Award in the Theatre category in Live Design's 2020 Design Achievement Awards. Vote for the most outstanding projects now!
Allen Lee Hughes' lighting for A Soldier’s Play transformed the stage as one location smoothly melted into the next scene. The design crucially delineated between past and present as the narrative flowed between experience and memory. Allen Lee Hughes' keen eye for composition provides a visual feast while keeping the audience's attention focused on the actors and keeping a wide range of skin tones in balance.
“Allen Lee Hughes’ clean and crisp lighting carries us through this difficult and important story with seeming effortlessness. It is a design at the highest level of art and craft, created by a consummate designer at the pinnacle of his powers. The light seeping in through the slats is not just green, but the best green that implies the full range of the multiple identities inherent in lives of these soldiers. Throughout the play, he creates a dignifying light that reveals the full humanity of the fight against the institutional racism at the heart of the story.” — Clifton Taylor, lighting designer and judge for the Design Achievement Awards
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