Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay is a reflection on the language of scenic light, based on the long operational experience of the author as theatre director and lighting designer. In particular, his workshops on light from 1989 to 2015 at different Italian fine arts academies (Catania, Urbino, L'Aquila, Florence, Rome) are examined. Over the years, these workshops have produced about twenty performances focused exclusively on light, objects and sound, hence without text and without actors, aimed at verifying the ability of light to produce and put into play its own autonomous language, poetry and drama through a concatenation of visual events in time and space. These performances – however abstract and without narrative structure – tend to induce a strong emotional involvement in the audience with reactions such as laughter or tears. This has convinced the author that light is capable of elaborating its own independent dramatic 'discourse', comparable to some extent with that of music.
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