Abstract:

            This study analyses the importance of light design in constructing and modifying theatrical spaces. For this research, using a qualitative approach based on the interaction of light and space with perception, also known as spatial and sensory analysis. In the analysis, the study illustrates control of light, space, and perception, as well as visualization within a theatre. Using performing art, governing beauty of architecture, and visual semiotics, it explains lighting as an essential factor that shapes visibility, creates mood or atmosphere, focuses attention, and conveys generalized meanings. This paper examines light as a pictorial and atmospheric means in live performance through critical analysis of classical and contemporary approaches to stagecraft.