Bare: A Pop Opera

Bare: A Pop Opera was directed at the Wits Main Theatre, Johannesburg, in the period 2015 to 2018, with production, set, lighting and costume design by the same hand. The set places a school hall on a proscenium stage: bleachers, long tables, chairs and microphone stands, with the cast working across the full width.

The lighting photographs show a hot pink and red palette across the stage, a red cyclorama, and strong sidelight that keeps faces lit against the pale school-hall walls. Colour carries the musical staging; the quieter scenes narrow to a few figures and a table.